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I wonder who discovered it
(lemmy.nz)
What's more interesting is, beaver castor sacs also used as a strawberry and vanilla flavour substitute, approved by FDA.
I hear the beaver glands taste like vanilla, but I can't be sure that's not just a prank people pull to get unsuspecting victims to lick beaver ass.
Maybe it's a "prank" beavers pull.
EDIT: Formatting
Vanillin, the modern artificial vanilla flavor, is made from lignin, one of the main components of bark. Beavers eat a lot of bark, and thus process a lot of lignin. Apparently the lignin accumulates in their anal scent glands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum