To make the extract itself, a combination of water and alcohol is passed over chopped vanilla beans for several days before the liquid is aged for further flavor development. Imitation vanilla is ...

It takes 300 hand pollinated orchid blossoms to get one pound of dried vanilla beans. But due to climate change, the island ...

Can you cut corners with an imitation product? Fact checked by Isaac Winter Medically reviewed by Jerlyn Jones, MS, MPA, RDN, LD, CLT Vanilla extract shows up on the ingredients list for a wide ...

If the vanilla extract's smell is faint and lacks that familiar sweet scent, you probably should invest in a new bottle. Some lower-cost vanilla extracts or imitation extracts contain sugar and ...