X20 Planifolia Vanilla from Mayotte (by kg)
Natural Vanilla Planifolia (by kg)
Origin and Terroir: Mayotte
Harvest: 2025
Curing: scalded and sun dried
Refining: > 9 months
DDM: 31.12.2030
Mayotte vanilla is a little similar to "Bourbon" vanilla, and notably awarded with the silver medaille at the 2022 salon de l'agriculture de Paris. The beans are quite large, fleshy and oily, with light spicy pepper flavour and orange flowers notes harvested at full maturity like it's done in Polynesia with the Tahitensis. This is one Planifolia we love too as it offers a larger range of aromas and flavors and tend to crystallise* with age.
* Vanillin crystals is the natural end expression of the benzenoid crystal that matures inside the pod. Within properly cured vanilla pods vanillin functions as an important conservative, and its content should be high enough before curing and refining in order to stimulate natural immune resistance to mold and create delicious dark fragrant vanilla smell and flavours.
Vanillin crystals are a natural concentrate and a sign of excellent quality of the vanilla pods. You can recognise them as they shine in the light and look like white spines or literally shiny sharp glass-like tiny “diamonds” of vanilla, such as the THC residue on excellent marijuana plants.
When vanilla pods have this high vanillin content they can be kept for years under excellent storage condition, in glass tubes or glass jars well protected from light. Crystalline beans also have an amazing and powerful smell and tend to dry out over time so the smell and flavor packs into the plant matter but does not diffuse aromatically through the air without interaction or extraction. The flavor literally soaks deep into the skin and seeds and retains inside the pod.
Indicative pod length: 13–20 cm; as a natural product, pod length, width and individual weight may vary from pod to pod; the stated weight corresponds to the exact weight of pods in the lot sold; the net weight is also stated when packed and invoiced. A kilo is about 250 pods.
Moisture: +-35%
Vanillin: +- 2.2%
Packaging: in 1kg uv-airbag
Mayotte origin certified
Price *FOB (without transport) and **DAP (with transport) are confirmed at the time of order as per actual transportation cost. For order above 10kg please send us your request by email at contact@sylvanilla.ch.