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Re:Bracing for the Vanilla Boom by adrianN on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:34AM (#18091295)
It doubt that imitation vanilla copies all the chemicals that are present in natural vanilla, as there must be hundreds. With artificial flavorings they usually only copy the most dominant component.
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Re:Bracing for the Vanilla Boom by kondro on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:51AM (#18091341)
You're right, but vanillin (C8H8O3) is very dominant (even in natural vanilla) and, as natural vanilla is cooked, a lot of the other compounds tend to be destroyed.
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Re:Bracing for the Vanilla Boom by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:59AM (#18092647)
Destroyed? Broken down to other chemicals, surely. Or are we cooking at 10000K.
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Re:Bracing for the Vanilla Boom by adrianN on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:53AM (#18093845)
"Excuse me, but your house wasn't destroyed in the fire, it was merely broken down to other chemicals. Your insurance only covers destruction of property."
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Re:Bracing for the Vanilla Boom by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:18PM (#18097782)
Lol; but if you were tasting the house then the materials will still affect the flavour despite having been burnt.
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