Can you smell it?? Vanilla pods!!! What an exquisite aroma…

Vanilla beans were first harvested from wild orchids. Do you know that Vanilla is actually the only orchid whose fruit can be eaten? It is also the most expensive spice after saffron.

In old medicinal literature, vanilla is described as an aphrodisiac and a remedy for fevers. If these purported uses have never been scientifically proven, it is however more obvious that Vanilla eases digestion and helps fight intellectual fatigue, insomnia, stress and low spirit. It is also helpful for prostate problems and heals poisonous animals’ bites.