Vanilla: The amazing fruit and flavor
Vanilla is an edible fruit of the orchid family. It's a tropical orchid. There are more than 150 varieties of vanilla, though only two types – Bourbon and Tahitian — are used commercially.
Mar 23, 2021
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Vanilla is an edible fruit of the orchid family. It's a tropical orchid. There are more than 150 varieties of vanilla, though only two types – Bourbon and Tahitian — are used commercially. The Olmec people on the Gulf Coast of Mexico were the first who use vanilla as a flavoring in beverages. Before that, vanilla was only used as a fragrance in temples and the flowers were placed inside of amulets to protect the wearer from the evil eye Vanilla plants have a long and fleshy climbing stem that attaches to trees by aerial rootlets. One reason that makes vanilla so expensive is it's hard to grow. Vanilla vines take at least two to four years to get fully mature and their flowers only bloom for one day of the year. For the plants to produce beans, they have to be pollinated that day. In most places where vanilla is grown, it isn't a native plant, and there aren't bugs or birds capable of pollinating the flowers. Vanilla is native to Mexico, but deforestation there has greatly reduced its natural habitat.Writer: Shanjana Hossain Information: collected
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