Retired Air Force veteran Jon Hanson turned his vanilla-making hobby into a business, sourcing beans from Madagascar, Mexico and Tahiti. Jon Hanson, owner of Hanson's Vanilla in Fargo, imports ...

"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.

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.