75% OF VANILLA EXTRACTS are synthetic. “Today, most vanillin is produced from the petrochemical raw material guaiacol. As of 2001, the annual demand for vanillin was 12,000 tons, but only 1,800 tons of natural vanillin were produced. The remainder was produced by chemical synthesis.” Synthetic biology is tackling this with a gene construct for one of the 30+ vanilla variants. ”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022