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Lemon thyme

Herbs & floral· herb

Lemon thyme

What it is

Lemon thyme is Thymus citriodorus, a thyme hybrid used in cooking much like common thyme.

What it tastes like

On the nose: thyme, fruity, piney, citrus. Among its measured molecules: geranyl butyrate, 3-octanol, 3-octanone, thymol, carvacrol.

What goes with it

159 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 15 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

  • linaloolaromaalcoholreads as spicy, citrus taste (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.23% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-linalool', RI 1099)
  • thymolaromaphenolreads as aromatic odor (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite
    2.93% of the EO and 2.22% of the hydrosol -- a minor constituent here, in contrast to its dominance (46-68%) in the Thymus vulgaris papers cited by data/curated/thyme.jsonNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'thymol', RI 1290)
  • carvacrolaromaphenolreads as thymol odor (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.39% of the EO and 4.39% of the hydrosol -- one of only three compounds this paper detected in both fractionsNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'carvacrol', RI 1299)
  • 3-octanolaromaalcoholMeasured in 4 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1.06% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row '3-octanol', RI 993)
  • borneolaromaterpenoidreads as piney, camphor-like odor (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 338 ingredients.cite
    2.44% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'endo-borneol', RI 1158)
  • 3-octanonearomaketonereads as mild fruity odor (PubChem)Measured in 6 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1.72% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row '3-octanone', RI 985)
  • geraniolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose odor (PubChem)Measured in 26 of 338 ingredients.cite
    47.08% of the EO and 44.06% of the hydrosol -- by far the largest single component identifiedNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1 (Chemical composition of essential oil (EO) and hydrosol (H)), row 'geraniol', RI 1255)
  • geranialaromaterpenoidreads as strong lemon odor (PubChem)Measured in 21 of 338 ingredients.cite
    7.94% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'a-citral' (printed with the Latin 'a' rather than the Greek letter), RI 1270)
  • neralaromaterpenoidMeasured in 18 of 338 ingredients.cite
    7.12% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-citral', RI 1240)
  • nerolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.02% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'cis-geraniol', RI 1228 -- a separate row from 'geraniol' (RI 1255) in the same table)
  • geranyl acetatearomaterpenoidreads as odor of lavender (PubChem)Measured in 24 of 338 ingredients.cite
    4.05% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'geranyl acetate', RI 1380)
  • β-caryophyllene oxidearomaetherMeasured in 19 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1.54% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'caryophyllene oxide', RI 1581)
  • caryophyllenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 50 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.48% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'caryophyllene', RI 1436)
  • geranyl butyratearomaesterMeasured in 2 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1.06% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'geraniol butyrate', RI 1564)
  • β-bisabolenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 10 of 338 ingredients.cite
    3.41% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosolNtalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-bisabolene', RI 1508)

Sources

  • Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants