Did the vanilla seeds grow into a white orchid? 🌱 Vanilla is the second-most expensive spice in the world (after saffron). The compound vanillin, extracted from the Vanilla plant is used for things like flavoring ice cream, making candies, sweetening soft drinks, in baking, and more! I always choose vanilla over caramel bc vanilla comes from a plant and caramel is made from cooking down butter and sugar. Annually, 3500 tones of vanilla are produced alone in the USA. You need a process called cu