New Swedish Secret Baking Ingredient

Misfit

Misfit

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http://www.thelocal.se/50250/20130915/

The Swedish National Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) has confirmed that anal secretions from the beaver can be used to provide a taste similar to vanilla in baked goods and sweets.


Information that beaver bottoms can be a source of vanilla aroma, in the form of Castoreum, have been circulating on the internet recently and the agency has now confirmed that there is substance to the secretions.
 
ZARA

ZARA

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About as appetizing as Kopi Luwak coffee. AKA Cat Poop Coffee. AKA The most expensive coffee in the world.


Most Expensive Coffee in the World

Kopi Luwak the most expensive coffee in the world does exist, and those who drink the expensive coffee insist that it is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the Common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.
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The most expensive coffee beans can cost up to $600 a pound, and up to $50 per cup
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Here's The Scoop On Cat Poop Coffee : The Salt : NPR

Tim Carman, food writer at The Washington Post, earlier this year: "Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water" is how he put it.
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For the Love of God people, READ the Ingredients!!!
 
Merlin99

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Misfit said:
http://www.thelocal.se/50250/20130915/

The Swedish National Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) has confirmed that anal secretions from the beaver can be used to provide a taste similar to vanilla in baked goods and sweets.


Information that beaver bottoms can be a source of vanilla aroma, in the form of Castoreum, have been circulating on the internet recently and the agency has now confirmed that there is substance to the secretions.
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Not new and not just Sweden, the US FDA doesn't have a problem with it either.
snopes.com: Castoreum
 
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