Pearl

Vanilla pearls for food manufacturing

Vanilla Fair's industrial Vanilla Pearls are uniform, dark brown beads scraped from split Madagascar vanilla beans, with an intense vanilla taste and a sweet, lingering finish. They are made for manufacturers who want concentrated vanilla flavour in a uniform format that is easy to dose on a production line.

Formats and supply

• Jars of 500 g, 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg, or bulk packs; custom packaging on request.
• Available all year round, in limited quantity: plan your volumes early.
• 12 to 24 months at +12 °C to +19 °C, in sealed original packaging, away from air, light and humidity.

Industrial applications

• Industrial bakery: doughs and batters.
• Dairy: ice cream and yogurt.
• Confectionery and chocolate.
• Beverages and ready-to-eat desserts.

The right dose depends on the matrix and on the flavour already in your recipe. Start from a bench trial, then scale up with the formulation simulator.

From cured bean to pearl

The raw material is Madagascar Vanilla planifolia cured by the Bourbon method, whose four stages are killing, sweating, drying and conditioning¹. Green pods contain almost no free vanillin: it is stored as glucovanillin, mainly around the seeds, and released as curing breaks down the cell compartments^1,3. In our own curing, pods are dipped at 63 °C for about 3 minutes, then sweated for 48 to 72 hours above 40 °C before drying.

Specifications to agree before production

• Identity. "Vanilla pearl" is a trade name: products sold under it range from beads of vanilla to pastes of seeds and concentrate^4,5. Ask for the full composition.
• Vanillin and moisture. ISO 5565-1:1999 notes that pods usually show 1.6 to 2.4% vanillin on a wet basis². Any figure you receive should state its test method and moisture basis.
• Split beans. The same standard treats split pods as sub-grade B of each quality category²; your specification can name the beans used.
• Fresh or exhausted. Seeds recovered after extraction are sold too, with a milder aroma⁶; the specification should say which you receive.
• Traceability. In the EU, a food may not be marketed without a lot indication, with limited exemptions⁷: agree the lot and date format for your intake checks.

How to order

Industrial pearls are quoted per project: volume, jar size, destination and documents, with samples on request. See also: natural vanilla seeds, gourmet vanilla pearls for pastry kitchens, and vanilla powders for industry.