According to Wikipedia only around 15% of artificial vanilla flavour is made from wood. The other 85%? You’ve guessed it - oil.
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
This factoid becomes even more interesting when you learn that artificial vanilla is made from wood.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
From what I can find it sounds like plant oils, not petroleum, for anyone else that was confused.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Today, approximately 15% of the world’s production of vanillin is still made from lignin wastes,[11] while approximately 85% is synthesized in a two-step process from the petrochemical precursors guaiacol and glyoxylic acid.[12][13]
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Isn’t petroleum technically a plant oil?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It was plant oil, being fermented anaerobically and heated for millions of years chemically changes it.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not a factoid, it’s an actual fact.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Turns out I mistook what “factoid” means. Thanks for correcting me.
hakase@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.