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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    From what I can find it sounds like plant oils, not petroleum, for anyone else that was confused.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Isn’t petroleum technically a plant oil?

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It was plant oil, being fermented anaerobically and heated for millions of years chemically changes it.

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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not a factoid, it’s an actual fact.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turns out I mistook what “factoid” means. Thanks for correcting me.

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    • hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Words mean what people use them to mean. That is what factoid means.

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