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vanilla bean

Vanilla planifolia

The whole cured pod: split and steeped, it gives up vanillin and a hundred trace aromatics.

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vanilla bean

CHEMISTRY

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The characteristic compounds documented in this ingredient, plus any the library traces to it in a recipe. Not an exhaustive phytochemistry.

C₈H₈O₃
vanillin
C₈H₈O₃

vanilla, drawn slowly