Oh I never knew that you can get it without sugar.

I use the real thing it has a much better flavor

Vanilla takes about 9 months to make, starting with pollination of the flower on the vanilla vine. Each flower only lasts a single day, and the flowers are hand pollinated to make sure each produces a vanilla bean. After the vanilla beans grow and mature, they are harvested. At this point they have no flavor at all, and must be processed through a 3 to 4 month long drying and curing process to create the vanilla flavor we all know.

After the curing process, the vanilla beans are soaked in vats of alcohol for a few days to weeks depending on the manufacturer. The best vanilla brands age their vanilla extract for several months before shipping to retailers.

That whole process takes about 9 months. In 2003 a typhoon destroyed the vanilla crop in Madagascar, which is the worlds largest producer of vanilla beans. The result was a huge price increase of pure vanilla extract that lasted about 1 year until the full growing and production cycle of vanilla was repeated.

The "New Coke" change in the early 1990's was about switching from pure vanilla to vanillen (imitation vanilla). The phenomenal flop of New Coke should answer the question of whether there is a difference in pure vanilla and imitation vanilla.

I dont know more about vanilla flavoring.
But i like the flavor.
I specially like vanilla falvor ice cream.