Vanilla Bean Whole - 4 oz - Organic - Mountain Rose Herbs

Description

Our organic vanilla beans are transcendent in dessert recipes such as homemade ice cream, shortbread, and cakes. Vanilla orchids bloom for only a day, during which time they must be pollinated by hand. Vanilla Bean Whole - 4 oz - Organic - Vanilla planifolia is a tropical orchid with an exquisite, edible fruit, the vanilla bean. Although whole vanilla beans have become one of the world’s most expensive spices, they can be worth the splurge for their complexity of flavor. After harvest, the pods go through an elaborate process of being killed, sweated, dried, and conditioned in order to maximize the flavor and fragrance. Vanilla may easily be one of the most well-known flavors in the world. The flavor is derived from the ripened fruit of a tropical orchid, Vanilla planifolia, the only orchid in the world that produces an edible fruit. The mythology of the pre-Columbian Totonac tribe (who resided in what is now Mexico) refers to vanilla as an aphrodisiac, and it is still used for that purpose in a. Impressed, he took sacks of vanilla beans back to Europe with him along with the gold and gems of the defeated Aztec empire. In the wild, vanilla vines (which attach themselves to living trees) may grow to a length of 80 feet or more. It is the world's costliest spice after saffron, as the growth process is long and painstaking. Even so, the bulk of the world's supply of vanilla is provided by only a handful of countries (primarily Madagascar, Mexico and Tahiti).

Key Features

• Although whole vanilla beans have become one of the world’s most expensive spices, they can be worth the splurge for their complexity of flavor.
• In the wild, vanilla vines (which attach themselves to living trees) may grow to a length of 80 feet or more.
• Vanilla may easily be one of the most well-known flavors in the world.
• Vanilla Bean Whole - 4 oz - Organic - Vanilla planifolia is a tropical orchid with an exquisite, edible fruit, the vanilla bean.
• Our organic vanilla beans are transcendent in dessert recipes such as homemade ice cream, shortbread, and cakes.
• The spent pods can even be used to make homemade vanilla extract and vanilla sugar.