UPSCEDULINE

  Where does vanilla flavoring come from? Filtering in any meaning of the word “filter” sounds extremely creative. In a food context, I mean, the vanilla bean is like an extremely versatile, well-seasoned filter for our food. It is a tasty vanilla flavor that is recognizable in almost every other way (the “clear” clear cream French pudding? Check. The top section of a bowl of ice cream? Check. The base of most a pre-packaged peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Check). So, when you want your food to make you jump, or sing, it needs to serve that purpose somehow. There are all sorts of filters for our food. We have shortening, dairy products, soy, liquid oils, amino acids, alkaloids, sugar, fat, magnesium, cyanide, zinc, potassium, and a ton of more. The vanilla flavor started off as a result of filtering out other confusing flavors of ice cream, like strawberry and clover. When we naturally go through a tremendous amount of insulin to put our food into our bodies, silica that helps to...