On 2014-04-24 20:59, Jeßus wrote:

>> I'm glad you cleared that up because the answer sites I found say
>> vanilla essence is chemicals: "vanilla essence is imitation vanilla
>> extract".
>
> Yeah, the horrible stuff. I can only speak about Australia, but in our
> supermarkets you do need to look closely at the label and not just
> grab the first bottle you come across... it may be genuine or
> imitation. Same with maple syrup, I've seen some labels that are
> really quite deceiving - technically correct - but misleading that it
> is actually imitation and not the real stuff.

Around here that stuff is called artificial vanilla extract.