Vanilla – The sweet taste of orchids

Vanilla bean cafe: Most of the people will not know about the popular flavoring which is well known as vanilla which comes from orchids. Some of your favorite sweets like ice cream and chocolates will actually attribute their flavoring to these fruitful plants.

Vanilla Planifolia is one of the important species of the orchid family. Unlike most orchids, Vanilla grows vines and bears beans or seedpods, which produce the flavoring vanillin. When the seedpods are picked, they become dark in color and soon become the black pod we are used to seeing in the kitchen. You know the history of this orchid has a darker side to it.

According to the first cultivators of this plant, the Totonac of Mexico will be the birth which will came about from the death of two lovers. The story tells of a goddess who fell in love with a mortal but was forbidden by her father to get married. In protest, they fled to the forest to live their love but were later caught and beheaded. From their blood grew this orchid which is now known as the vanilla orchid. Although its roots will be traced in Mexico and this popular flavoring now finds its home most popularly in Madagascar.

The Bourbon Vanilla is currently most popular and most widely used of all the vanilla types. Indonesia and Mexico will be growing orchids like these but in smaller quantities compared to Madagascar. A lot of food, especially the sweet ones can now thank vanilla for their great flavor. Among these most loved deserts are custards, breads, coffee and even milk. Who would have known that aside from their edible flowers, orchids would be a staple in everyone's kitchen?

Vanilla is the only fruit-bearing plant in the orchid world to have been widely and most commonly used in the kitchen all around the world. hough orchid parts such as petals, bulbs and stems have been utilized as medicinal herbs, the vanilla is the only orchid type to have such fame. A flavoring like this is a sweet reminder that even the most delicate things in the world can be such a feast for the palette. Exotic and mysterious as its beginnings are, vanilla is an orchid to be proud of.

You hear someone calling orchids mere flowers and plants and you can tell about vanilla. Surely this wonderful orchid would shed some sweet light on them.

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