Vanilla
Bean Exchange offers the best vanilla products in the world. With the highest quality beans, you’ll discover an incredible flavour profile and indescribable scent. One whiff and you’ll realize what every vanilla extract you ever encountered was supposed to smell like! A heavenly buttery aroma with a rich, black or dark brown colour with an oily outside surface gives a hint of the magic. The interior of the vanilla bean is where the magic is. Millions of tiny, black vanilla seeds await.
Bean Exchange and its group of producers are centrally located across two provinces (East & West Sepik), With current plantings and planned expansion, along with ongoing investments within the industry PNG could well surpass Madagascar in becoming the top-tier producer of vanilla
Our traditionally cured fresh vanilla beans develop a full, complex vanilla flavour made of over 200 organic compounds. The entire process takes 6 to 9 months after pollination. Vanilla processing and curing is a true work of ART
Bean Exchange offer beans triple inspected through their journey from PNG. First, our farmers inspect each pod with their generations of wisdom and experience. Then the second inspection takes place before the bulk vacuum sealing for transport to ensure no mold has developed. The final inspection is completed at our warehouse moments before packing your shipment. We check the aroma, quality, and appearance a final time.
As the beans reach a more ideal moisture content, they are left in the sun open to the air during the day and rolled up at night. Daily sun exposure is paramount to flavour transformation and the prevention of mould on vanilla beans. This rolling and unrolling continues for up to two months.
