@tardibabe: I couldn’t believe my eyes 🥹 Vanilla seeds under the scope kinda look like cranberries? But with cool textures and a very distinctive smell 😌 Vanilla is a genus that belongs to Orchidaceae family! Yes, Vanilla is an orchid! I as today years old when I learned this 😂 Orchids are among the largest family of flowering plants and Vanilla contains more than a hundred different species. Vanilla beans used for vanilla extract comes from Vanilla planifolia or Vanilla fragrans, which are native from Mexico but are now cultivated in Indonesia, Madagascar, Tahiti and other tropical countries. The aztecs used to cultivate Vanilla and used it to flavour their foods and drinks. Nowadays, the US is the largest importer of vanilla beans and use it for the fabrication of vanilla extract 🫘 Besides being one of the most utilized food flavouring, vanilla is also used in perfumes and pharmaceuticals. The aroma and flavour of vanilla comes from the presence of vanillin, which can also be synthesized in laboratory and used as artificial flavour. Fun fact: vanillin is used the mask the unpleasant tastes in some medicine! 🌸 Even if the concentration of vanillin is around 1-2% per pods, the smell is so strong that it stayed on my fingers all day! The green, unripen, vanilla beans need to go through a traditional curing process before they develop their distinctive aroma and flavour. This curing process has 4 stages (killing, sweating, sun drying and conditioning) which contributes to the development of aromatic and phenolic compounds but also fatty and organic acids. The curing process enables morphological, structural and chemical changes and the colonization of certain microorganisms which altogether enable the vanilla been to acquire that appreciated aromatic profile 🌿 Video taken with my iPhone 14 Pro mounted on a Olympus BX53 microscope with an @ilabcam ultra adapter 🔬 #fyp #vanilla #dessert #microscope #plants

Chloé Savard

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Friday 31 March 2023 19:44:48 GMT