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Monday, March 20, 2006

Aromatherapoo?

Japanese researchers have succeeded in making the sweet smell of vanilla come out of cow dung.

A heating process allows cow feces to produce vanillin, the main component of the vanilla-bean extract, said Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Centre.

It could be used in shampoo and candles but not food as "it would be difficult for people to accept [given disclosure of] origins of ingredients".


the question I keep coming back to is what possessed someone to think up and research this in the first place.


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