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Caraway

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Caraway

What it is

Caraway is the dried seed of Carum carvi, a biennial plant in the carrot family grown across Europe and western Asia.

What it tastes like

On the nose: cloves, citrus; the house adds thyme ✳. Among its measured molecules: sylvestrene, trans-dihydrocarvone, cis-dihydrocarvone, 2-Cyclohexen-1-ol, 1-methyl-4-(1-methylethenyl)-, trans-, carveol.

What goes with it

203 more go with it. See them all in the full library →

Salt and acid

Salt

0 mgAsian pear10 mgCinnamon100 mgFennel seed1,000 mgOlive10,000 mgFish sauce

Sodium 17 mg per 100 g — USDA FoodData Central 170918.

Acid

Acid not measured yet.

Unusual pairings

Pairs the library can cite that almost nobody makes.

14 of 86 compounds on file carry a paper the library can cite.

  • eugenolaromaphenolreads as odor of cloves (PubChem)Measured in 19 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.1% of the caraway seed essential oil — and the entirety of the paper's stated 0.1% phenylpropanoid class, i.e. the only non-terpenoid aroma compound it identifies in carawayGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, phenylpropanoids block, row 12 'Eugenol', linear retention index 1358)
  • carveolaromaterpenoidMeasured in 3 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.5% of the caraway fruit essential oil. The paper does not say which isomer, so the name is kept as printed rather than resolved by inference; the other cited paper separates trans-carveol and cis-carveol at 0.1% each.Fekry et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 1, row 5 'Carveol', retention index 1198)
  • carvonearomaterpenoidMeasured in 13 of 338 ingredients.cite
    58.2% of the caraway seed essential oil in an independent Tunisian sample — within nine per cent of the Egyptian figure, so the dominance is not a one-harvest artefact. The paper's own class total puts oxygenated monoterpenes at 59.6%, i.e. carvone is almost the entire oxygenated fraction.Ghannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1 (Chemical composition of Carum carvi L. seeds essential oil), oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 11 'Carvone', linear retention index 1242)
  • p-cymenearomaterpenoidreads as mild pleasant odor (PubChem)Measured in 42 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.5% of the caraway fruit essential oil — the first-eluting compound the paper reportsFekry et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 1, row 1 'p-cymene', retention time 9.995 min, retention index 1007)
  • perillaldehydearomaaldehydeMeasured in 4 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.4% of the caraway fruit essential oil — the last of the oxygenated monoterpenes the paper reports before the wax fraction, and the same compound the citation-chase lane cleared for shisoFekry et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 1, row 7 'Perilla aldehyde', retention time 17.195 min, retention index 1238)
  • trans-dihydrocarvonearomaterpenoidMeasured in 2 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.2% of the caraway seed essential oil. Note that the two papers put the cis/trans ratio the opposite way round — cis larger in the Tunisian seed, trans larger in the Egyptian fruit — which is carried visible rather than reconciled.Ghannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 8 'trans-dihydrocarvone', linear retention index 1202)
  • limonenearomaterpenoidreads as pleasant lemon-like (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 338 ingredients.cite
    38.5% of the caraway seed essential oil — the second-largest constituent, and effectively the whole of the paper's stated 39% monoterpene hydrocarbon fraction. Carvone and limonene together are 96.7% of this oil.Ghannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, monoterpene hydrocarbons block, row 3 'Limonene', linear retention index 1032)
  • 3-carenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 19 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.1% of the caraway seed essential oilGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, monoterpene hydrocarbons block, row 2 'D-3-carene', linear retention index 1013)
  • myrcenearomaterpenoidreads as pleasant (PubChem)Measured in 68 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.4% of the caraway seed essential oilGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, monoterpene hydrocarbons block, row 1 'Myrcene', linear retention index 993)
  • trans-carveolaromaterpenoidMeasured in 7 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.1% of the caraway seed essential oilGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 9 'trans-carveol', linear retention index 1219)
  • cis-dihydrocarvonearomaterpenoidMeasured in 2 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.7% of the caraway seed essential oilGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 7 'cis-dihydrocarvone', linear retention index 1195)
  • cis-limonene oxidearomaMeasured in 3 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.1% of the caraway seed essential oilGhannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 5 'cis-limonene oxide', linear retention index 1136)
  • sylvestrenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
    14.8% of the caraway fruit essential oil, the second-largest constituent in that paper. This is the isomeric p-menthadiene that the other cited paper reports as limonene at 38.5%; the two are NOT merged here, because neither paper states they are the same peak and renaming would be this repo's inference rather than a source's claim.Fekry et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 1, row 2 'Sylvestrene', retention time 10.335 min, retention index 1018)
  • 2-Cyclohexen-1-ol, 1-methyl-4-(1-methylethenyl)-, trans-aromaterpenoidMeasured in 2 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.1% of the caraway seed essential oil; its cis isomer is reported at the same 0.1% two rows later. The paper prints the locants with a full stop rather than a comma ('2.8-dien'), a European decimal convention preserved in 'as'.Ghannay et al. 2022, Plants (Table 1, oxygenated monoterpenes block, row 4 'trans-p-mentha-2.8-dien-1-ol', linear retention index 1126)

On file, no cited source yet ✳

These molecules are on record for it from the library's earlier sources. We are buying and requesting the papers; each one that lands moves its molecule up into the cited list.

  • Grycerol 2-O-fucopyranoside
  • carvacrolphenolreads as thymol odor (PubChem)
  • (2R,3R,4R,5S)-hexane-1,2,3,4,5-pentolalcohol
  • o-tolualdehydealdehyde
  • octadec-6-enoic acidacid
  • (2E)-4-(acetyloxy)-3-methylbut-2-enoic acidacid
  • galactitolsugar
  • Junipediol A 4-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside
  • 1-(2-Hydroxy-3-methoxy-5-prop-2-enylphenyl)ethanoneacid
  • 4,6,6-Trimethyl-3-oxocyclohexa-1,4-diene-1-carbaldehydeterpenoid
  • 4,6,6-Trimethyl-5-oxocyclohexa-1,3-diene-1-carbaldehyde
  • (3S)-3-methoxy-4,6,6-trimethylcyclohexa-1,4-diene-1-carbaldehyde
  • (3S)-3-hydroxy-4,6,6-trimethylcyclohexa-1,4-diene-1-carbaldehyde
  • [(1R)-5-formyl-2,4,4-trimethylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-yl] (E)-4-acetyloxy-3-methylbut-2-enoateterpenoid
  • (5R)-5-hydroxy-4,6,6-trimethylcyclohexa-1,3-diene-1-carbaldehydeterpenoid
  • [(1R)-5-formyl-2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-yl] (E)-4-acetyloxy-3-methylbut-2-enoateterpenoid
  • d-carvoneterpenoid
  • D-threitol
  • alpha-terpineolalcoholreads as floral, lilac (PubChem)
  • sabineneterpenoid
  • erythritolreads as about twice as sweet as sucrose (PubChem)
  • bergaptencoumarin
  • D-fructopyranosealcoholreads as sweet (PubChem)
  • 2,3,4-trimethylbenzaldehyde
  • 4-coumaric acidacid
  • cis-carveolterpenoid
  • gallic acidacid
  • methoxsalencoumarinreads as bitter taste followed by tingling sensation (PubChem)
  • 5-Hydroxy-1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxycyclohexyl)decan-3-one
  • (-)-limoneneterpenoid
  • (-)-carvoneterpenoid
  • D-limoneneterpenoidreads as citrus odor (PubChem)
  • gingerolphenol
  • (+)-cis-carveolterpenoid
  • (+)-trans-carveolterpenoid
  • L-fucitolalcohol
  • 1,3,4,9,10,10AS-Hexahydro-5,6-dihydroxy-1,1-dimethyl-7-iso-propyl-2H-9S,4AR-(epoxymethano)phenanthren-12-oneterpenoid
  • 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-3-[(2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-4-oneflavonoid
  • quercetinflavonoid
  • coniferinether
  • kaempferolflavonoid
  • petroselinic acidacid
  • caryophylleneterpenoid
  • beta-ocimeneterpenoid
  • (R)-rosmarinic acidacid
  • petroselaidic acidacid
  • eleutheroside Balcohol
  • 1-Ethenyl-1,2-dimethyl-4-propan-2-ylidene-2-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohexaneterpenoid
  • cis-β-Ocimeneterpenoid
  • 4-(acetyloxy)-3-methylbut-2-enoic acidacid
  • D-sorbitolsugarreads as sweet taste, approx 60% as sweet as sugar (wt/wt) (PubChem)
  • keto-D-fructosesugar
  • uridinenitrogen compound
  • D-(-)-mannitolsugarreads as sweetish taste (PubChem)
  • p-coumaric acidacid
  • anetholetherreads as sweet taste (PubChem)
  • geranialterpenoidreads as strong lemon odor (PubChem)
  • γ-elemeneterpenoid
  • carnosic acidphenol
  • linaloolalcoholreads as spicy, citrus taste (PubChem)
  • alpha-pineneterpenoidreads as odor of turpentine (PubChem)
  • trans-caffeic acidphenol
  • thymolphenolreads as aromatic odor (PubChem)
  • eugenol acetatephenol
  • protocatechuic acidacid
  • (-)-Rosmadialterpenoid
  • anetholacid
  • 4-methylbenzaldehydealdehydereads as floral odor (PubChem)
  • decanalaldehydereads as citrus odor (PubChem)
  • estragoleetherreads as sweet taste reminiscent of anise (differing from anethole) (PubChem)
  • (+)-catechinflavonoid
  • Epirosmanollactone

Sources

  • Ghannay et al. 2022, Plants
  • Fekry et al. 2022, Molecules