Adams Extract & Spice produces well over 100 extracts, spices and food colors in a variety of sizes, but the company will always be best known for its vanilla extract, Adams Best. The company traces it beginnings back to 1888 when John Anderson Adams sold extracts in the harsh Michigan climate. In 1905, he moved his family to Texas. Shortly after World War II, Adams Extract began diversifying its product line and expanding its operations. By the early 1960s a spice division was added. In 2002, Adams Extract was moved to Gonzales, Texas, under its new name of Adams Extract & Spice. The company is a full-service ingredient company that services a huge array of end users in the food industry under the Adams, CTI, Rex, Neustra Casa and Flavor a la Carte labels.