![]() Today, there’s no reason to believe that the artificial vanilla extract you bought at the grocery store contains castoreum. “It’s really gone out style,” Bryan Quoc Le, a food scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells me. Any pearl-clutching articles you may have run across spreading panic that there’s beaver butt oil in your food are greatly exaggerated. “All five unanimously stated that castoreum is not used today in any form of vanilla sold for human food use” and that it’s more common use is in fragrances. Going farther back, in 2011, one vegetarian non-profit asked five companies that produce natural and artificial vanilla if they used castoreum in their products. Since at least 2013, only 300 pounds of castoreum have been produced annually. ![]() The entire experience sounds unappetizing (would you really want to use castoreum on your food after witnessing where it comes from?) and uncomfortable, for the beaver in particular. First the beaver must be anesthetized and the castor gland “milked” to produce the secretion. According to National Geographic, the process is complex and invasive. The biggest challenge to processing castoreum for use in food is that it’s challenging to harvest, as you might imagine. Castoreum is rarely used to flavor food anymore, and even if it were, the FDA has ruled that it poses no health risk. ![]() Don’t rush into your kitchen and purge all your vanilla extract from your cabinets or toss your vanilla ice cream from the freezer, though. The properties of castoreum have made it a popular additive in perfumes and to enhance vanilla, strawberry, and raspberry flavors in foods like ice cream and yogurt. Thanks to a diet of tree bark, the goo has a musky fragrance similar to natural vanilla. In nature, beavers use castoreum to mark their territory. The castor gland, located underneath the beaver’s tail distressingly close to the anus, produces a slimy brown substance called castoreum. This is due to the fact that beaver populations started dwindling, along with the high costs of extracting the compound from the animals.Beavers have sweet-smelling butts. The good news is that Castoreum is now seldom used in food products, as vanilla flavouring is now made with a substance called vanillin. (Also Read: Comedian Finds Horror Inside His Cereal Pack Twitter Thread Goes Viral) But it still made me laugh a lot.- Matt Beard April 9, 2021 (And vice versa, of course.)- James Wong April 12, 2021Īpparently this is no longer common practice. "Where does vanilla flavouring come from"Īnd thank me later.- D | Zaifa stan acc April 8, 2021įor example, Westerners saying Asian durian fruit smell awful & gagging at the idea of eating them, when THE EXACT SAME aroma compounds in are what give many popular European cheeses their flavour. So.found out today that vanilla is made from a beavers shit ❤️ lovely /ShRHXlBMmS- Beedz? April 8, 2021 Love how everyone's searching this, so when I typed "where does." Guess what was the top search term ?- Jen April 7, 2021 ![]() Googled “where does vanilla flavouring come from” /3g5Hayy2P0- Ananya April 7, 2021 Take a look at the tweets about vanilla flavouring: It soon became a challenge of sorts, as users challenged their friends to search the term 'Where does vanilla flavouring come from' and see the astonishing results. The shocking revelation even made people swear off vanilla lattes and vanilla flavouring. This news exploded over the internet, with users trying to Google the news and see the results for themselves. It is also a relatively cheaper alternative to vanilla extract which is supposed to be quite expensive. The US FDA has listed Castoreum as a safe additive and it has also been used in perfumes and foods in the past 80 years approximately. However, the unique diet of beavers lends a pleasant smell to this compound, which is why it has been incorporated in vanilla flavouring. ![]() Due to its proximity to anal glands, Castoreum is a mixture of several excretions including the beaver's urine and scat. This chemical compound is used by beavers to mark their territory. How shocking, right? The report reveals that vanilla flavouring is made with a few additives, which includes a component called Castoreum. ![]()
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