"Vanilla beans look like a green runner bean (a bean vegetable), hence the reference to 'bean,'," says Jennifer Boggiss, CEO and co-founder of Heilala Vanilla, a B-Corp certified vanilla producer.

This increase in price has to do with a number of factors, including vanilla bean theft, complex pollination, extreme weather, and the rise of the "all natural" food movement. All of these ...

The ice cream was very good, with vanilla-bean and dairy flavors. The frozen dessert? Just OK, with a generic vanilla flavor and gummy texture. It also left a slick coating in the mouth.