We trust that the list of volatile compounds offered in this chapter will be useful to investigators studying quality attributes of vanilla, for fingerprinting vanilla bean chemistry from different species or geographic regions of production, as an aid for detecting contaminants/adulterants and a guide for flavorists seeking vanilla fortifiers or synergists for the production of synthetic renditions of vanilla flavor.
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