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This is fake, false advertising


This is not vanilla powder, its completely and instantly water soluble and has an ultra flat one tone synthetic vanilla flavor. Straight bullshit. Tell your friends.

by notjustrynasellstuff

24 Comments

  2. sunshinestate369

    Vanilla is naturally alcohol soluble, not water soluble.

  3. 16thmission

    I imagine this is made like instant coffee but with alcohol.

    Vanilla soaked in alcohol. Filtered. Alcohol evaporated, probably under a vacuum.

    Powder! And it just dissolves!

  4. No_Permission8014

    And this is why years ago I made the switch to Lorann’s Vanilla Paste.

  5. Sea-Flamingo1969

    Dang, seems like that should be illegal. I wonder if you can report it somewhere

  7. The_Nepenthe

    I keep seeing these cheap vanilla bean powders and thinking they seemed suspect, somehow they are less than half the price of buying the same weight in vanilla bean powder from a good supplier.

  9. EnvyRepresentative94

    Micronized powder could do this, but also the instructions say to use it in hot liquid or blend it, so I’m not sure where the confusion is coming in?

  10. knobiknows

    Fairly sure this is actually made from the bean ie. The empty pods after they’ve scraped the seed out for extract. So as far as the label goes they are legally correct which is all that matters.

  11. 9gagsuckz

    I always bought actual vanilla beans and scraped out the middle part to use

  12. _Jacques

    I am no expert but I feel like thats so unbelievably illegal and easy to sue that it HAS to be legit. You can go to your local university’s physics/ chemistry department and politely ask them to test the carbon 13/14 composition to see if its synthetic or not.

  13. StrangeArcticles

    I wonder how they get away with that misleading description. Is it sold as a supplement instead of a food item or something? That gets you around a lot of regulations. Shit either way.

  14. pinkwar

    If its half the price than a known brand, it is fake.

  15. ranting_chef

    I suppose if you dry the entire pod and pulverize the whole thing together, the yield is great. Not close to what we all know as vanilla, but I doubt that matters much to them.

  16. fartothere

    More likely that they used low quality beans. You don’t have to lie to cut corners.

  17. HPLovecraft1890

    My guess is, this is just ground up vanilla beans with the flavourful seeds removed first. Basically just the shell.

  18. TJNel

    I’m confused as hell what is the issue? It says the ingredient is vanilla beans. This would be the husks dried and ground up.

  19. krum

    No honey you don’t understand the grift. That’s a PICTURE of an authentic Madagascar vanilla bean.

  20. KazanTheMan

    Probably a grey area, the listed ingredients are vague. Could be beans that have given up most of their flavor through other processes, and finally processed in such a way that it forms a water soluble powdered compound without adding anything significant to the products ingredients, such that it can be declared 100% vanilla bean.

    Or, my bet, they’re playing fast and loose with vague distinctions. 100% Madigascar Vanilla Bean Powder to a layman would be vanilla beans powdered, but it could be a powder containing some plurality of vanilla bean, treated and blended with other ingredients, but the final product is 100% that powder blend. It’s the difference between powdered vanilla bean and powder of vanilla bean, basically.