Monday, June 9, 2014

Your Vanilla Ice Cream Is About to Get Weirder

Your Vanilla Ice Cream Is About to Get Weirder | Mother Jones: "A company called Evolva has managed to create a compound called vanillin—the one that gives vanilla beans their distinctive and wildly popular flavor—grown not on a vine but rather in a culture of synthetic yeast.

Even though you'll likely soon be ingesting its products, synbio—like nanotechnology, which I looked at in two posts last week—is virtually unregulated and can show up in consumer products without any labeling requirements."

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