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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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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Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
From what I can find it sounds like plant oils, not petroleum, for anyone else that was confused.

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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Isn’t petroleum technically a plant oil?
  
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  - Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It was plant oil, being fermented anaerobically and heated for millions of years chemically changes it.
    
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    xylol@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Have we tried speed running oil creation like we did with diamonds?
    
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    theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It was not plant oil. Plankton and algae aren’t plants.
    
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  - theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No
    
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- ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]
  
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