ANFS 181 Lecture 5: Flavors
5 Feb 2019
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28. 8% of production in us is dedicated to vanilla. Us consumes 58. 6% of the world"s vanilla. Plant vanilla planifolia - 3 years to grow vines and produce orchids. Orchids only bloom for 24 hours and must be hand pollinated to produce beans. Dipped in boiling water or put into bags to cure (turn brown) Dried out in the sun then stored inside on racks to sweat (daily for as long as they would like to develop certain flavors) Madagascar produces 80% of vanilla crop, mexico is second. Mexico, indonesia, india, papua new guinea start to produce. Excess vanilla causes prices to drop and other countries to stop growing vanilla. 2013 - major hurricane destroy mexican vanilla orchid plants. Madagascar in turmoil after poor crop in 2015. Percolation - chopped beans and alcohol under a vacuum for 48-73 hours. Maceration - finely ground beans and alcohol under vacuum for 8-9 days. Mixed with glycerol, propylene glycol, sugar or corn syrup.
