Salam.
I was reading the ingredients of a product and one of them was vanillin. I contacted the company who manufactures the product to investigate whether the vanillin was extracted using alcohol or not, and this was the answer:
"The vanillin in our products is derived from lignin. While the vanillin does originally contain alcohol, there is no alcohol in the finished product."
After that, I contacted them again because I wanted to know if the vanillin originally contains ethyl alcohol, and this was the answer:
"While ethanol is used in the production process, there is no