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The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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Is There a Difference Between Vanilla and Vanilin?
For a long time, the dominant way of making paper was this thing called the sulphite process. Now we mostly use other paper making processes that also happened to not make that by product from which you can synthesize vanilla. Vanilin is easily synthesized, so you would think that imitation vanilla extract would taste just like real vanilla extract. But it doesn't. It might be the case that imitation vanilla has more vanilan in it than real vanilla does - depending on the brand.
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