Vanilla is my favorite flavor for everything, even in the bedroom!
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids, were you aware of that?
Oh I had no idea, but I do love vanilla icecream in bed, yes sir! How is it extracted?
well it came from very long ago! Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid.
Oh wow, how new is the flavor? Did they have it in ancient times?
Yes they did, the flavor we know of now was brought back to the new world with chocolate in the 1520s by Hernan Cortes.
Oh yes, chocolate and vanilla, a great combo. What other flavors go good with vanilla, do you thinl?
chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.
Pollination is required to set the vanilla fruit from which the flavoring is derived. In 1837, Belgian botanist Charles François Antoine Morren discovered this fact and pioneered a method of artificially pollinating the plant. The method proved financially unworkable and was not deployed commercially. In 1841, Edmond Albius, a slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, discovered at the age of 12 that the plant could be hand-pollinated. Hand-pollination allowed global cultivation of the
or lignin.
Lignin-based artificial vanilla flavoring is alleged to have a richer flavor profile than oil-based flavoring; the difference is due to the presence of acetovanillone, a minor component in the lignin-derived product that is not found in vanillin synthesized from guaiacol.
History.
Vanilla was cultivated as a flavoring by pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people; at the time of their conquest by Hernán Cortés, the Aztecs used it as a flavoring for chocolate. Europeans became aware of both chocolate and vanilla around 1520