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Chicken

Meat, fish & cheese· meat

Chicken

What it is

Chicken is the meat of the domesticated fowl Gallus gallus domesticus.

What it tastes like

On the nose: sweet, acid, wintergreen, rose. Among its measured molecules: 2-ethylhexanol, methyl salicylate, 1-octanol, 1-octen-3-ol, caprylaldehyde.

What goes with it

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

Salt and acid

Salt

Salt not measured yet.

Acid

Acid not measured yet.

Unusual pairings

Pairs the library can cite that almost nobody makes.

Every one of its 12 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

  • caprylaldehydearomaaldehydereads as strong, fruity odor (PubChem)Measured in 37 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.46 (HH3, significantly higher than WRMD2, P<0.05), 0.33 (WRMD1), 0.16 (WRMD2); aroma description: lemon, citrus, soap, orange peel, fat, waxy, fatty, aldehydic, greenShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Aldehydes block, row 'Octanal')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • 1-octanolaromaalcoholreads as fresh orange rose odor (PubChem)Measured in 19 of 338 ingredients.cite
    2.56 (HH3), 0.22 (WRMD1), 0.14 (WRMD2) -- no significant difference reported despite the roughly tenfold spread, driven by high variance in HH3; aroma description: burnt, orange, rose, waxy, chemical, metal, aldehydic, mushroom, greenShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Alcohols block, row '1-Octanol')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • palmitic acidacidreads as slight characteristic taste (PubChem)Measured in 11 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.89 (HH3), 0.36 (WRMD1), 0.23 (WRMD2); aroma description: fatty, slightly waxyShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Acids block, row 'n-Hexadecanoic acid')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • methyl salicylatearomaesterreads as liquid having the characteristic odor of wintergreen (PubChem)Measured in 11 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.28 (HH3), 3.02 (WRMD1), 3.58 (WRMD2) -- no significant difference reported, and the single highest-value ester in the table for all three breeds; aroma description: mint, wintergreen, peppermintShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Esters block, row 'Methyl salicylate')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • L-alaninetasteacidreads as sweet taste (PubChem)Measured in 3 of 338 ingredients.cite
    10.21 mg/100g (HH3), 12.46 mg/100g (WRMD1), 22.43 mg/100g (WRMD2, significantly higher than the other two, P<0.05); the paper's own text classifies alanine, with threonine and serine, as a sweet-tasting amino acid that interacts synergistically with IMP to increase sweetnessShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 2, row 'Alanine')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • L-aspartic acidtasteacidreads as sour (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite
    2.81 mg/100g (HH3), 4.01 mg/100g (WRMD1), 7.79 mg/100g (WRMD2, significantly higher than the other two, P<0.05); the paper's own text classifies aspartic acid as an umami amino acid with an MSG-like taste when present with sodium saltShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 2 (free amino acid contents, mg/100g), row 'Aspartic acid')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • adenosine monophosphatetastenitrogen compoundMeasured in 2 of 338 ingredients.cite
    6.53 mg/100g (HH3), 7.81 mg/100g (WRMD1, significantly higher than the other two breeds, P<0.05), 6.62 mg/100g (WRMD2) -- the paper states this level is too low for AMP's own sweet taste to register, and reads its contribution as synergistic enhancement of IMP's umami taste rather than independent sweetnessShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 1, row 'AMP')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • 2-ethylhexanolaromaalcoholreads as sweet, fatty-floral taste with fruital note (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite
    0.53 (HH3), 0.69 (WRMD1), 0.55 (WRMD2) -- the most breed-stable of the shipped VOCs, no significant difference reported; aroma description: citrus, fresh, floral, oily, sweet, fatty, fruityShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Alcohols block, row '1-Hexanol, 2-ethyl-')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • 1-octen-3-olaromaalcoholMeasured in 35 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.30 (HH3, significantly higher than WRMD2, P<0.05), 2.37 (WRMD1), 1.12 (WRMD2); the paper's own aroma-description column (sourced from Flavornet/FlavorDB/FooDB) describes it as raw, fishy, oily, earthy, fungal, chicken, mushroom, greenShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4 (volatile organic compounds, A.U. x10^6), Alcohols block, row '1-Octen-3-ol')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • nonanalaromaaldehydereads as orange-rose odor (PubChem)Measured in 59 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1.13 (HH3, significantly higher than WRMD2, P<0.05), 0.98 (WRMD1), 0.50 (WRMD2); aroma description: citrus, lime, orange peel, rose, fat, green, fishy, waxy, fresh, fatty, peely, aldehydic, orris, grapefruitShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 4, Aldehydes block, row 'Nonanal')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • hypoxanthinetastenitrogen compoundMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
    15.25 mg/100g (HH3, significantly higher than WRMD2, P<0.05), 12.70 mg/100g (WRMD1), 12.21 mg/100g (WRMD2) -- a degraded product of IMP that the paper describes, citing Feng et al. 2016, as bitter-tastingShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 1, row 'Hypoxanthine')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.
  • Inosine 5'-monophosphatetastenitrogen compoundMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
    the dominant nucleotide-related taste compound in raw chicken breast across all three breeds: 207.97 mg/100g (HH3), 260.54 mg/100g (WRMD1, the highest, P<0.05 vs HH3), 229.89 mg/100g (WRMD2); the paper's text identifies IMP as imparting an intense umami/savory taste, stronger than MSG, and as synergistic with AMPShin et al. 2024, Poultry Science (Table 1 (nucleotide-related compounds, mg/100 g), row 'IMP')Measurement only — the source text is licensed facts-only.

Sources

  • Shin et al. 2024, Poultry Science(facts-only licence)