Are there beaver secretions in your vanilla ice cream? News articles or food influencers on social media might have you believe that castoreum, a yellow, syrupy substance from the castor sacs near a ...

It's a myth that artificial vanilla flavoring comes from castoreum extracted from beaver castor sacs. Flavor chemists explain that artificial vanilla flavor is made from synthetic vanillin. Vanillin ...

"Eau De Musc" isn't your usual whiskey. It gets its flavor from beavers. Beaver castor sacs to be specific. But let's get back to the beavers, shall we? The 88 proof bourbon has been infused with the ...

Tamworth Distilling in New Hampshire has some people going "ewww" over its latest creation - a bourbon made with beaver butt secretions. Eau de Musc is made with castoreum, the stuff that beavers use ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Beavers secrete a special goo that smells ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series examining the beaver.The beaver has an important place in American history and the history of the west. Much of the exploration of North America ...