A tweak of sweet in vanilla extract
Photo credit: Newsday/Joe Dombroski | Sweeteners are is permissible ingredients in vanilla extract.
What are the ingredients in pure vanilla extract?
It recently was brought to my attention that many leading manufacturers add sugar or corn syrup to their vanilla. My initial reaction to this was, "The scoundrels! Is no food safe from the taint of sweeteners?" McCormick, it turns out, puts corn sugar in its vanilla. More surprising, sugar is listed as an ingredient in Penzey's and in Nielsen-Massey's,...
