27 entries.
Product
Cinnamon
Quế · Cinnamomum loureiroi · Cinnamomum cassia
Product
Star anise
Hồi · Illicium verum
Product
Cashew
Điều · Anacardium occidentale
Product
Coffee
Cà phê · Coffea canephora · Coffea arabica
Region
Yên Bái
Cinnamon
Province on the atlas
Lào Cai
Cinnamon
Region
Lạng Sơn
Star anise
Province on the atlas
Cao Bằng
Star anise
Province on the atlas
Bắc Kạn
Star anise
Province on the atlas
Quảng Ninh
Cinnamon · Star anise
Province on the atlas
Thanh Hoá
Cinnamon
Province on the atlas
Nghệ An
Cinnamon
Region
Quảng Nam
Cinnamon
Province on the atlas
Quảng Ngãi
Cinnamon
Province on the atlas
Bình Phước
Cashew
Origin guide
Vietnamese Cashews: Where They Grow and How They Are Graded
Vietnam grows a small share of the world’s cashews and shells a large share of them. Its growing regions, harvest, processing chain, kernel grades and trade, with every figure sourced.
Explainer
What Is a Cashew Apple?
The fruit-like part of the cashew tree is a swollen flower stalk. It is edible, astringent and very perishable, which is why most of the world’s cashew apples never leave the orchard.
Origin
Where Do Cashews Come From?
From a tree native to tropical South America to a shelling plant in southern Vietnam: how a cashew grows, who grows it, and why most of the world’s kernels pass through Vietnam.
Origin guide
What Is Vietnamese Cinnamon? Saigon Cinnamon From Tree to Trade
Where the trees grow, how the bark is peeled and graded, how much Vietnam exports, and why one trade name covers two species — each point traced to a source you can open.
Explainer
Cassia Cinnamon: Three Species, One Trade Name
One trade word, three species from three countries — one of them Vietnam. Here is what “cassia” means in the spice trade and in regulation, and why it is still cinnamon.
Explainer
Coumarin in Cinnamon: What Is Measured, and What Is Regulated
A composition page. Every number here comes from a named study or regulator, most of them single samples — and the samples disagree more than most summaries admit.
Comparison
Ceylon vs Saigon Cinnamon (and Cassia): What Actually Differs
Two different species sold under one word. Here is every difference we could source, cell by cell — including the coumarin numbers and what regulators have done with them.
How it's made
What Tree Does Cinnamon Come From? The Vietnamese Tree, From Planting to Peeled Bark
Cinnamon is bark, and the bark comes from one genus of trees. This page follows Vietnam’s tree through its life: when it is thinned, when it is felled, how the bark comes off, and how it is dried and graded.
Origin guide
Star Anise
The dried fruit of an evergreen tree from the hills on either side of the China–Vietnam border. This guide follows it from the tree to the export market.
Comparison
Japanese Star Anise vs Chinese Star Anise: How to Tell Them Apart
Two species of one genus with near-identical dried fruit, and only one of them is the spice. What differs, why the eye cannot settle it, and what a laboratory and a buyer can do instead.
Origin
Where Does Star Anise Come From?
Almost all of it grows in two neighbouring regions: Guangxi in China and the northern border provinces of Vietnam. Here is where, when it is picked, how it is dried and graded, and why the production figures disagree.
Comparison
Anise vs Star Anise: Two Unrelated Plants, One Shared Compound
Star anise and anise seed share a name and one aroma compound. Species, fruit, pharmacopoeia figures, fennel and customs codes, each with its source.