Vanillin: a review on the therapeutic prospects of a popular flavouring molecule

Vanilla is the world’s most popular flavour extracted from pods of planifolia orchid. It a mixture ~ 200 compounds but its characteristic and fragrance primarily come vanillin. While importance wide usage in well established, there have been limited investigations to evaluate bioactive potential. However, few studies reported promising array bioactivities that could be exploited for multiple therapeutic applications. Recently, properties vanillin, such as neuroprotection, anticarcinogenic, antioxidant are gaining attention. Besides this, vanillin synthetic analogues found regulate gene expression exhibit biological activities. Therefore, here we summarize potential bioactivates derivative with an aim change perspective being new age therapeutics molecule.