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Facts and FAQs About Vanilla

…beans are typically more fruity and floral than Bourbon and Mexican beans, but they have less natural vanillin, the flavor we most often associate with vanilla. They are especially nice…

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Vanilla Extract – An Insider’s View

…Imitation vanilla must be labeled as Imitation. Imitation vanilla contains synthetic vanillin.  The vanillin is made with chemicals as opposed to the vanillin which occurs naturally in pure vanilla. While…

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Imitation (Synthetic) Vanilla

Imitation vanilla comes from synthetic vanillin, which mimics the flavor of natural vanillin, one of the components that gives vanilla its extraordinary bouquet.The first synthetics were made in Germany in…

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How to Select and Use Vanilla Beans

…Comoros are described as having a creamy, haylike, and sweet, with vanillin overtones. Bourbon beans from other regions of the world will be similar if they are picked at peak…

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FAQs

What’s the best vanilla extract?

…high natural vanillin content. This means big flavor. Made with just a little sugar Extracts that contain no sugar or only a small percent of sugar and no corn syrup…

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For Farmers

Cheap vanilla? Hold onto your wallet!

…a better imitation vanilla was created from the effluent of paper pulp. Ponderosa pine contains natural vanillin (the flavor is in the wood pulp). While it doesn’t taste the same…

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Vanilla in Tahiti

…have sharper points than planifolia leaves. The orchids are whiter and the petals are more slender and open. All Tahitian vanilla is very low in natural vanillin — from .02…

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Ice Cream, Sorbets, etc

The Best Vanilla Ice Cream

…the beginning of the 21st century there have been high-end pure vanilla substitutes called Natural Flavors. These substitutes are made with vanillin from plant sources other than vanilla beans. While…

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Awareness

Why is vanilla so expensive?

…dairy products, will switch to “other natural flavors,” (which can mean either imitation vanilla or vanilla flavor made from vanillin drawn from plants other than vanilla beans), rather than pay…

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Comfort Foods

Rice Pudding to the Rescue

…look even remotely like the perky Kozy Shack rice pudding. But then, Kozy Shack doesn’t use pure vanilla — they use “natural flavors,” which means vanillin from paper pulp or…

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Enchanting Tahiti

…Tahitian vanilla as it has very little natural vanillin, and a distinctly different flavor. Then, in the early 1980s, Marc Jones and Peter Stone, two entrepreneurial young Americans with a…

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Be the Change

Vanilla Guerilla

…the best vanilla he has ever come across. In the meantime I have taught myself how to obtain pure vanillin crystals (the white compound that gives vanilla its typical aroma)…

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