{"id":11593,"date":"2012-04-06T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=11593"},"modified":"2012-07-17T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T20:54:43","slug":"vanilla-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/06\/vanilla-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/features\/view\/312397\" target=\"_blank\">How could the world&#8217;s most delicious orchid taste sour?<\/a> Vanilla crop failures around the tropics are driving up prices for the beans. The world&#8217;s second most expensive spice (after saffron) is notoriously difficult to cultivate, and its cost is rising. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">Vanilla<\/a> yields have fallen in India and Mexico by as much as 90% this year, leaving growers in Madagascar and Indonesia to fill the void. News of the poor crop has already lead to hoarding by speculators. Vanilla prices have jumped 20% in the past couple months, and ice cream prices may increase 10% as a result. Other vanilla products, from sweets to perfumes to medicines, will also feel the pinch. Synthetic vanilla, or vanillin, is a common substitute, and is unaffected by this shortage. Fortunately, this crisis doesn&#8217;t appear as severe as 2003&#8217;s, after a cyclone damaged the crop in Madagascar and prices soared into the stratosphere. But for those who want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000CPZSC8\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000CPZSC8\" target=\"_blank\">real vanilla beans<\/a>, this current crisis will reach into your wallets.<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/js\/link-enhancer-common.js?tag=abouorch-20\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>&amp;amp;lt;br \/&amp;amp;gt;     &amp;amp;lt;img src=&#8221;http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/img\/noscript.gif?tag=abouorch-20&#8243; mce_src=&#8221;http:\/\/wms.assoc-amazon.com\/20070822\/US\/img\/noscript.gif?tag=abouorch-20&#8243; alt=&#8221;&#8221; \/&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;br \/&amp;amp;gt; <\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could the world&#8217;s most delicious orchid taste sour? Vanilla crop failures around the tropics are driving up prices for the beans. The world&#8217;s second most expensive spice (after saffron) is notoriously difficult to cultivate, and its cost is rising. Vanilla yields have fallen in India and Mexico by as much as 90% this year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragrant-orchids","category-in-the-news","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11593"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11593\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}