Is there actual alcohol in the bourbon vanilla bean paste?
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Alcohol is not listed in the ingredients on the bottle. Listed, in order are: sugar, water, vanilla extract, vanilla beans, gum tragacanth (a thickener).
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I got this answer directly from the Nielsen Massey website: Q: Is there Bourbon Whiskey in your Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract? A: No, the term Bourbon is a geographic reference to the Bourbon Islands-Madagascar, Comoro, Runion, Seychelles and Mauritius-which are off the east coast of Africa. While there is alcohol in our extracts, the majority of this will either be cooked off during preparation or spread throughout the entirety of your dish. For instance, you may add one teaspoon of vanilla extract, which is only one-third alcohol, to an entire batch of cookies.
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I got this answer directly from the Nielsen Massey website: Q: Is there Bourbon Whiskey in your Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract? A: No, the term Bourbon is a geographic reference to the Bourbon Islands-Madagascar, Comoro, Réunion, Seychelles and Mauritius-which are off the east coast of Africa. While there is alcohol in our extracts, the majority of this will either be cooked off during preparation or spread throughout the entirety of your dish. For instance, you may add one teaspoon of vanilla extract, which is only one-third alcohol, to an entire batch of cookies.
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It's a combination of extract and vanilla bean seeds, so I would say yes, a minimal amount of alcohol would be present; from the extract itself.
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There is no listing of an actual alcohol content on the bottle, so I do not believe so. Here's the ingredients list off bottle: Sugar, water, vanilla extract, vanilla beans, gum tragacanth (a natural thickener). Hope that helps.
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Ingredients listed on bottle are as follows: sugar, water, vanilla extract, vanilla beans, gum tragacanth (a natural thickener). No alcohol!! Hope that helps. It's the ONLY vanilla bean paste I use for cooking and baking.
2187735
lots and lots of alcoholby law vanilla extract contains 35 percent alcohol in USA my bottle contained 41 percentMcCormick increased it from 35 percent in the last yearI am just a consumer and I do do work for Amazon
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as best i know this vanilla extract does not contain coumarin or tonka bean extract. i understand coumarin is used as an artificial vanilla flavoring and nielsen-massey's product is madagascar bourbon pure vanilla extract. the label ingredients list reads: water, alcohol (35%), sugar, vanilla bean extractives. 1 tablespoon vanilla extract = 1 vanilla bean. hope this helps.
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My batch of vanilla beans were fine...no mold. I already had vodka purchased and used them immediately.
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The Nielsen-Massey website indicates a 3 year shelf life for this product. http://www.nielsenmassey.com/culinary/products-madagascar-bourbon-pure-vanilla-bean-paste.php
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Yes. I was surprised. I live in New Mexico where it use to be sold but no longer is. My daughter suggested I look on the internet and thankfully I found it. I was skeptical until I got it, but, yes, its the real vanilla.
2129570
Not that I know of. The chemical makeup usally doesn't have alcohol. It tastes weird.
2240935
Yes, vodka is the normal choice of alcohol to use when making homemade vanilla. It's what I use.
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Patricia - I don't know how to answer that question. We bought our beans to use in making vanilla extract as a giveaway for this Christmas. So, we have a lot of Smirnoff vodka bottles with beans in them "steeping" until the late fall. I will say the beans arrived in very good condition and do have really good flavoring. Does that answer your question? Wes
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The ingredients on my bottle read: Glycerin, Fair Trade Certified vanilla bean extractives, water. But on the front of the bottle there is an asterisk beside the words "NON-ALCOHOLIC." I never noticed the asterisk before so I read the note it referred to on the back of the bottle. It says "Contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume." I don't know what that means and never noticed it before?????
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Virtually. There are trace amounts of alcohol from the brewing process. Less than 0.1% though.
1329110
No, there isn't any alcohol in it. It is a very good face cleaner and I like it because it helps remove make up.
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Bourbon wasn't listed on the ingredients, and it doesn't taste like bourbon. It tastes similar to vanilla extract.
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Extract is made with alcohol and I'd prefer to avoid that. I love this nice rich thick paste.
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Not to my knowledge. It is pure Vanilla Extract and there are no mother ingredients listed in the label.
1993324
I'm not sure, but I know that the person who recommend these does a lot of research on a lot of foods, I can also say that I would not go back to using the bottled alcohol vanilla extract. These are the real vanilla bean with full flavor, I bought one package a year ago and the maintain their flavor. It delicious worth the price because it last a long time.
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no, there is no bourbon in them, that is the type of vanilla bean they are, like apples have different types:granny smith, golden delicious, ida red, ......... there are different types of vanilla beans