The renowned vanilla flavoring begins its journey to tantalizing your pallate here as once a year budds on the green fleshy vine

A short lived delicate flower emerges and lasts for a few hours some time between the months of December and April ( In Grenada)

These flowers have to be hand pollinated inorder to bear fruit.

With successful hand pollination, this flower can grow into a vanilla fruit or Vanilla bean.

A mature bean will begin turning yellow at the tips and left unattended it will split.

Fit beans are picked and put through an elaborate fermentation and drying process that yeilds dark, slender,

and Flexible beans ready for market.

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