What is the difference between natural vanilla and artificial vanilla?
Substances called vanilla flavor in the market dont contain vanilla at all, being synthesized from eugenol (clove oil), waste paper pulp, coal tar or coumarin, found in the tonka bean, whose use is forbidden in several countries. Real vanillin from pure vanilla has several hundred complex flavor components, artificial vanillin just simulates one or a few of these. A good synthetic duplicate of real vanilla simply does not exist.