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Not pure vanilla oleoresin - at least batch v201068002
I was really hoping to have found something pure. It says on the Amazon description that each product has multiple Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis done (this is incorrect). I talked to customer support today 2/28/18 and was told they don't do GCMS on this product because it is too thick, my sample is really thin. (I think what you would normally do it dissolve it in a solvent and then have the GCMS volatilize off the solvent since you know what the solvent characteristics are is - GCMS does this automatically), although it may be more tricky than that as I don't work with vanilla oleoresins. My bottle was very liquid and it is water miscible - which the label says it should not be, which is what led to the customer service call. So now I'm curious, so I ran my own GCMS analysis, sample dissolved in water easily (?!) after solvent "burn off" got a little over 80 items, ~35 were known to it's library (GCMS can recognize things in it's library, if it's above about 80% or so sure then it probably knows the chemical name, otherwise you have to look it up). Mostly vanillin, as expected. So I repeated the analysis, this time analysing the solvent phase and it showed ethanol. So what I appear to have is some concentrated vanilla extract like liquid, but that's not what it is sold as. It's got a nice fragrance, but so do many high end extracts. The GCMS produces a huge volume of data for it's report, so I'm only including one screenshot (so you don't think I'm making this up). The device was calibrated just prior to this run, and since the sample dissolved in water that's what used, so I couldn't test for water.
February 2018 · Unknown · verified purchase
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