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Blackberry

Fruit & berry· berry

What it is

Blackberry is the aggregate fruit of bramble shrubs in the genus Rubus.

What it tastes like

On the nose: grassy-green, pear, camphor, pine. Among its measured molecules: hexyl butyrate, 2-heptanol, trans-2-hexenol, camphene, cis-3-hexen-1-ol.

15 of 68 compounds on file carry a paper the library can cite.

• hexanalaromaaldehydereads as sharp, aldehyde (PubChem)Measured in 87 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, SpectConnect—relative abundance platform, Loch Ness/Ouachita comparison, row 'Hexanal')
• linaloolaromaalcoholreads as spicy, citrus taste (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS platform, Loch Ness/Columbia Star comparison, row 'Linalol')
• camphenearomaterpenoidreads as camphor (PubChem)Measured in 19 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS platform, Loch Ness/Columbia Star, Loch Ness/Prime-Ark 45 and Loch Ness/Nachez comparisons, row 'Camphene')
• alpha-pinenearomaterpenoidreads as turpentine (PubChem)Measured in 72 of 341 ingredients.cite

  log peak area 7.41; 4.35 × 10⁻⁵ µL per berry — Dewitte et al. 2021, Insects (Table 1, row 'alpha-Pinene')
• p-cymenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 42 of 341 ingredients.cite

  log peak area 7.26; 3.60 × 10⁻⁵ µL per berry — Dewitte et al. 2021, Insects (Table 1, row 'para-Cymene')
• 2-heptanonearomaketonereads as pear flavor (PubChem)Measured in 24 of 341 ingredients.cite

  one of the most consistently discriminating volatiles between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS and SpectConnect platforms, four of the five cultivar comparisons, row '2-Heptanone')
• 1-hexanolaromaalcoholreads as fatty, fruity (PubChem)Measured in 50 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars, recurring across platforms — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS and SpectConnect platforms, Loch Ness/Prime-Ark 45 and Loch Ness/Von comparisons, row '1-Hexanol')
• 2-heptanolaromaalcoholMeasured in 7 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars on the HS-SPME/GC-MS platform — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2 (variables with VIP-predictive value > 1.3), SpectConnect—relative abundance platform, Loch Ness/Von and Loch Ness/Nachez comparisons, row '2-Heptanol')
• terpinen-4-olaromaalcoholreads as pine (PubChem)Measured in 41 of 341 ingredients.cite

  log peak area 7.69; 1.84 × 10⁻² µL per berry — one of the two largest per-berry volumes in the table, alongside myrtenol at 2.03 × 10⁻² — Dewitte et al. 2021, Insects (Table 1, row 'Terpinen-4-ol')
• terpinolenearomaterpenoidreads as terpene taste (PubChem)Measured in 38 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS platform, Loch Ness/Columbia Star comparison, row 'Terpinolene')
• hexyl butyratearomaesterMeasured in 1 of 341 ingredients.cite

  log peak area 7.10; 2.37 × 10⁻³ µL per berry. Flagged by the paper's asterisk as showing no clear reduction over fifteen extractions — Dewitte et al. 2021, Insects (Table 1, row 'Hexyl butanoate')
• limonenearomaterpenoidreads as lemon (PubChem)Measured in 92 of 341 ingredients.cite

  one of the most consistently discriminating volatiles between blackberry cultivars — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS platform, four of the five cultivar comparisons, row 'Limonene')
• cis-3-hexen-1-olaromaalcoholreads as grassy-green (PubChem)Measured in 21 of 341 ingredients.cite

  OAV 0.59 to 1.85 in unripe fruit against a 70 µg/kg threshold, no longer detected at ripeness in any line — Nunnally-Martínez et al. 2026, Plants (Table 2, column '(Z)-3-Hexen-1-ol', rows for Rubus sp. lines RM-167, RM-215 and RM-276)
• 2-HexenalaromaaldehydeMeasured in 33 of 341 ingredients.cite

  a discriminating volatile between blackberry cultivars on every platform tested — Ljujić et al. 2024, Foods (Table 2, XCMS and SpectConnect platforms, four of the five cultivar comparisons, row '(E)-2-Hexenal')
• trans-2-hexenolaromaalcoholMeasured in 17 of 341 ingredients.cite

  OAV 0.46 to 1.70 at ripeness against a 100 µg/kg threshold, rising through ripening in every line — Nunnally-Martínez et al. 2026, Plants (Table 2, column '(E)-2-Hexen-1-ol', rows 'Ripe' for Rubus sp. lines RM-167, RM-215 and RM-276)