Nielsen-Massey, the largest vanilla producer in the world, uses only the finest Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans in the all natural products we have chosen to offer to you. They use no heat in extraction in order to preserve the vanillin and about 300 other volatile components that make up the complex vanilla flavour and aroma. The pure vanilla extract costs about 15 cents more per teaspoonful than grocery store vanilla a small price to pay for the purest, most flavourful vanilla we have found.