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CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION
Volume 53, Issue 12, Pages 1250-1276Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2011.563879
Keywords
Vanillin; flavor; antioxidant properties; food application; vanilla pods; glucovanillin
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- CSIR, New Delhi [COR-0010]
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Vanillais a tropical orchid belonging to the family Orchidaceae and it is mainly used in food, perfumery, and pharmaceutical preparations. The quality of the bean depends on the volatile constituent's, viz., the vanillin content, the species of the vine used, and the processing conditions adopted. Hence, proper pollination during flowering and curing by exercising utmost care are the important aspects of vanilla cultivation. There are different methods of curing, and each one is unique and named after the places of its origin like Mexican process and Bourbon process. Recently, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore has developed know-how of improved curing process, where the green vanilla beans are cured immediately after harvest and this process takes only 32days, which otherwise requires minimum of 150-180days as reported in traditional curing methods. Vanillin is the most essential component of the 200 and odd such compounds present in vanilla beans. Vanillin as such has not shown any antioxidant properties, it is along with other compounds has got nutraceutical properties and therefore its wide usage.The medicinal future of vanilla may definitely lie in further research on basic science and clinical studies on the constituents and their mechanism of action.
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