Product Description

Vanilla is a tropical climbing plant from the Orchidaceae family that is famous for producing vanilla pods (capsules) that are used as a natural flavoring agent. This plant originates from Mexico, but is now widely cultivated in various tropical regions, including Indonesia.

Characteristics of Vanilla Plants

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• Stem: Creeping, flexible, and can grow up to tens of meters with the support of host plants or climbing poles.

• Leaves: Oval, thick fleshy (succulent), dark green.

• Flowers: Greenish white, fragrant, and only bloom for one day.

• Fruit (vanilla pods): 15–30 cm long, elongated cylindrical, green when young and blackish brown when ripe.

Characteristics of Vanilla

• Aroma: Vanilla is one of the most expensive natural fragrance ingredients due to its unique sweet, warm, and soft aroma.

• Post-harvest process: The distinctive aroma of vanilla does not appear immediately when the pods are harvested. The pods need to go through a fermentation and drying process that takes several months.

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Benefits and Uses:

• Food: Vanilla is used as an ingredient in making ice cream, cakes, drinks, and various food products.

• Cosmetics and perfumes: Used in making fragrances and body care products.

• Traditional medicine: In some cultures, vanilla is considered to have calming and stimulating properties.

Economic Value:

• Vanilla is one of the high-value spice commodities. Its price is expensive because the cultivation and post-harvest process is long and complicated.

• If you want, I can help add a section about the history of vanilla cultivation, or the steps of its cultivation.

Vanilla specifications

• Brownish black color

• Vanilla content 2.2%

• Humidity 25% - 30%

• 18 - 21 centimeters

• vacuum packed with food grade plastic

• not broken and not printed

• organic vanilla beans

• food