Food (canned, recessed), olives, sushi ginger, apple concentrated juice and puree, natural drinking straws (reed).Trade
35-38% humidity and appears juicy, but inferior quality - more water weight and hence more profit for the vendor. Gourmet beans can be vacuum packed to appear juicy - a time-bomb as they dry out or mould up - use immediately for brewing extracting or baking. Usually, these beans have not expressed their full flavor, are nice in appearance, but unstable, in critical need of vacuum to biologically and aerobically stabilize, and carry a risk of mould as a near certainty within a month.
Beans around 15-20% humidity, being very brittle and hard and shrunken - but bursting with flavour! These beans may be deceptively empty in smell because they have dried and closed all of the pores on their skin and cannot "breathe," so it can be difficult to tell before using, if they are good Vanilla with lots of Vanillin per weight, or if they are very old, or even worse, extracted or low-quality Vanilla.
