Finally, it is noteworthy to mention that microorganism could be involved in the formation of aroma compounds (Röling et al., 2001).
The findings of studies that have been carried out to date have not revealed the exact nature of the reaction processes involved in the highly complex phenomena that take place during vanilla curing.
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