{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "cured-vanilla-pods",
 "type": "Material",
 "version": 2,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 2,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-5",
  "GC-6"
 ],
 "notes": "The perfumery extracts of the cured pods (absolute, CO2 extract, tincture) are not recorded: no filed source describes them.",
 "name": {
  "value": "cured vanilla pods",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-5",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:28",
  "quote": "Finally, in the conditioning stage, dried pods are stored at room temperature for 3–4 months to undergo chemical and biochemical reactions like esterification, etherification, and oxidative degradation, which enhance aroma quality (Anuradha et al., 2013).",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "kind": {
  "value": "natural",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "the cured fruit of the orchid",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "botanical": {
  "value": "vanilla-planifolia",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-5",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:13",
  "quote": "Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "part": {
  "value": "the fruit, the pod, cured",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-5",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:13",
  "quote": "Vanilla planifolia Jacks. ex Andrews (Ramos-Castellá et al., 2016), a member of the Orchidaceae family, is the only orchid cultivated for human consumption due to its production of an aromatic fruit: the vanilla pod (Ahmad et al, 2020;",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "extraction": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "not extracted: the material is the cured pod itself; it is made by the Process record `curing` (Lane 11 had filed curing as an Extraction; schema v2, Lane 14)"
 },
 "grade": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no grade on record; the page’s “Madagascar Bourbon vanilla” name has no filed source"
 },
 "descriptors": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no descriptor source filed"
 },
 "constituents": [
  {
   "molecule": "vanillin",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "GC-6",
    "where": "docs/sources/GC-6-de-oliveira-2022-vanilla.md:28",
    "quote": "In exceptional-quality vanilla pods, vanillin crystals can be observed in the form of small white needles (called, in French, givre) (Figure 2).",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "vanillin crystallises on exceptional cured pods (givre); in the green pod it is bound as glucovanillin, “a key precursor of vanillin” (GC-5, docs/sources/GC-5-cuan-escobar-2025-vanilla-curing.md:31)"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no multi-sample measured figure with medium and method is filed"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "the page calls vanillin “the dominant aromatic compound”; no filed source ranks it"
   }
  }
 ],
 "regulation": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Regulation record yet"
 },
 "price_band": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "nothing on the site is for sale and raw-material prices are left out until the sourcing phase (DECISIONS_LOG P2-2)"
 },
 "media": [
  "spec-vanilla",
  "or-8-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-vanilla",
  "card": "/materials#naturals",
  "molecule": "/molecule/vanillin"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Cured vanilla pods are the fruit of Vanilla planifolia after curing: killed, sweated, dried and conditioned until the scent has developed.",
  "body": [
   "Vanillin can crystallise on the best pods as fine white needles, the givre. No share is given here: no measured figure with its method is filed."
  ]
 },
 "processes": [
  "curing"
 ]
}