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Egg white
Sweet & rich· dairy

What it is
Egg white is the clear albumen surrounding the yolk inside a chicken egg, made mostly of water and protein.
What it tastes like
On the nose: fatty, citrus, orange-rose; the house adds silky ✳. Among its measured molecules: ethylbenzene, p-xylene, heptacosane, ethyl glycolate, 5-octadecenal.
What goes with it
- Sweet cornboth carry ethanolcite
- Duck fatboth carry heptanal, fattycite
- Green teaboth carry heptanal, fattycite
Salt and acid
Salt
0 mgAsian pear10 mgCinnamon100 mgFennel seed1,000 mgOlive10,000 mgFish sauce
Sodium 166 mg per 100 g — USDA FoodData Central 172183.
Acid
Acid not measured yet.
Unusual pairings
Pairs the library can cite that almost nobody makes.
- Egg white + Honey
both carry heptanal, fatty (55 of 338 carry it)
- Egg white + Sweet orange
both carry decanal, citrus (57 of 338 carry it)
- Egg white + Cherry
both carry decanal, citrus (57 of 338 carry it)
Every one of its 10 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.
caprylaldehydearomaaldehydereads as strong, fruity odor (PubChem)Measured in 37 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.10 +/- 0.1 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Aldehydes block, row 'Octanal', 'Control' column)ethanolaromaalcoholreads as burning (PubChem)Measured in 19 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.39 +/- 0.04 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Alcohols block, row 'Ethanol', 'Control' column)ethylbenzenearomahydrocarbonreads as pungent odor (PubChem)Measured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.16 +/- 0.12 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Hydrocarbons block, row 'Ethylbenzene', 'Control' column)p-xylenearomahydrocarbonreads as sweet (PubChem)Measured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.37 +/- 0.21 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Hydrocarbons block, row 'p-Xylene', 'Control' column)heptanalaromaaldehydereads as fatty taste (PubChem)Measured in 33 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.09 +/- 0.01 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Aldehydes block, row 'Heptanal', 'Control' column)decanalaromaaldehydereads as citrus odor (PubChem)Measured in 36 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.54 +/- 0.05 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Aldehydes block, row 'Decanal', 'Control' column)heptacosanearomaacidMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.54 +/- 0.15 area %; named in the abstract as one of the significant compounds contributing to EWP characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Hydrocarbons block, row 'Heptacosane', 'Control' column)ethyl glycolatearomaMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
1.18 +/- 0.14 area %; the abstract's own summary list names this compound 'acetic acid', but the table's actual row is the ester 'Acetic acid, hydroxy-, ethyl ester' (CAS 623-50-7, i.e. ethyl glycolate) -- a different substance from plain acetic acid (CAS 64-19-7), and the table's precise name is used as canonical here rather than the abstract's shorthand — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Esters block, row 'Acetic acid, hydroxy-, ethyl ester', 'Control' column)nonanalaromaaldehydereads as orange-rose odor (PubChem)Measured in 59 of 338 ingredients.cite
2.90 +/- 0.38 area %, the largest Control-column value among the ten compounds the paper's own abstract names as significant to EWP flavour characterisation — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2 (Volatile compounds identified in the egg white protein... using HS-GC-IMS), Aldehydes block, row 'Nonanal', 'Control' column)5-octadecenalaromaMeasured in 1 of 338 ingredients.cite
0.30 +/- 0.10 area %; the abstract's own summary list names this compound '5-octadecanal', but the table's actual row is the unsaturated aldehyde 5-Octadecenal (CAS 56554-88-2) -- the table's name is used as canonical here — Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules (Table 2, Aldehydes block, row '5-Octadecenal', 'Control' column)
Sources
- Nasiru et al. 2022, Molecules