freecycle mom

Um, you think?

joschi kley

Taste it...

They mix coumarin into it because it tastes so similar to vanillin that
a normal tongue can hardly discern between them.
If you want to smell coumarin as a pure and natural scent go to a
incense shop and smell Tonka-bean (lat.: Dipteryx odorata). It has a lot
of coumarin on it. (It is like a white powder on the bean)
It can´t be that poisoning in normal quantities. Here in Germany we have
a drink called "Maibowle". It is made with "Sweet Woodruff" (lat.:
Galium odoratum). This plant developes coumarin when geting dry. You can
smell the coumarin in it when you collect this plant and keep it for
some days.
People say that if you drink too much of that stuff you might get a
headache but that´s about all.

So don´t be too worried about it, it is not a deadly drug...

Joschi


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eric jorgensen

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:38:55 +0200


That's what i was trying to say - since we're higher primates, vitamin K
deficiency doesn't hurt us as much. Also since we're so large, it takes a
lot of coumarin to affect a healthy person.

I think the advisories I'd read said something about people already
taking anticoagulants, hemophiliacs, other people who have blood clotting
problems already.

I don't think coumarin tastes as much like vanillin as it does smell
like it, and smell is a big factor in taste. It's said to taste slightly
bitter. But then, Vanilla started out as a perfume.

mysterious

I don't know. In fact I'm kind of wondering what I bought when we were
visiting Barbados a few years ago. I brought back 2 bottles of vanilla
with me, and 2 bottles of 'mixed spices'. The mixed spice had several
mixed flavourings in it as well as vanilla. It smelled wonderful and I
used to substitute it for vanilla when baking.

I guess I'm sticking to Club House vanilla. I tried a cheaper brand
(house brand) of a large grocery A&P grocery chain and it was nowhere
the same in quality of taste or fragrance. Now it's the real thing
brand label or not at all. Feh!

Would anyone know if the vanilla from Barbados is unadulterated?

monsur fromage du pollet

I prefer the Penzeys double strength stuff. I don't have a clue about
contamination of spices from the Mexico, central America or where ever.
Never wanted to save a buck that bad to poison myself. I've always
found you pay for what you get.

There are various spice merchants on the web if you don't like the
Supermarket stuff.

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freecyclemom

Can't help you with that one, but for myself I've bought some vanilla
beans on Ebay and will make my own. The stuff that is suspect is
being used in the pot pouri pot with water.

wayne boatwright

Penzey's double strength vanilla is my favorite, but now that it's priced
at just under $40 for 16 oz., it's clearly out of my price range. For that
matter, the supermarket prices aren't that far behind it. Vanilla is
simply being priced out of the market.

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dee randall

Interestingly, a few weeks ago I was restocking some vitamins and decided to
get some Vitamin K, but the pharmacist said that Vitamin K is obtainable
only by prescription. But, http://www.dietitian.com/vitamink.html shows
what foods contain Vitamin K.
Dee