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In my experience in the US, it is usually labeled well whether it is artificial or natural. Natural usually costs at least 3x as much artificial.
by douche 10y ago
In my experience in the US, it is usually labeled well whether it is artificial or natural. Natural usually costs at least 3x as much artificial.
- basseq 10y agoNote that "natural" does not mean it's "real" vanilla extract. It just refers to how the chemical compounds that taste like vanilla were obtained (which may or may not have involved actual vanilla in the first place). Commented more above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12454658
- tptacek 10y agoYes, but if you're using vanilla the way most people do, paying the 3x extra for "natural" is not strictly speaking a rational decision; it's the vendors of "natural" vanilla who are playing games in that case. Which is what makes vanilla, I think, an interesting parallel to truffles.