[Sca-cooks] Vanilla Extract --Thank you!

[Carol Smith]

It's Tonkin extract that has the coumarin, and coumarin's now banned worldwide.  It used to be an additive to vanilla extracts, before food laws.
Mexican vanilla (as sold in the United States, at least) contains only vanilla beans as the flavoring these days, as required by law.

Regards,
Brekke
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lilinah at earthlink.net<mailto:lilinah at earthlink.net> 
  To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 6:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Vanilla Extract --Thank you!


  >  Daniel used to have some Mexican vanilla extract,

  Some Mexican vanilla does not contain vanilla or is vanilla 
  "contaminated" with some coumarin-containing substance. Coumarin 
  smells like vanilla (many natural vanilla-scented plants contain 
  coumarin), but it's not good for the liver.

  Despite the fact that vanilla originated in Mexico, I just wouldn't 
  trust Mexican vanilla.

  Perhaps they have improved industry oversight and i am just fear-mongering.
  -- 
  Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
  the persona formerly known as Anahita
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