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Lemon thyme
Herbs & floral· herb

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
- Lemongrassboth carry borneol, piney camphorcite
- Sageboth carry borneol, piney camphorcite
- Lavenderboth carry borneol, piney camphorcite
Salt and acid
Salt
Salt not measured yet.
Acid
Acid not measured yet.
Unusual pairings
Pairs the library can cite that almost nobody makes.
- Lemon thyme + Rose geranium
both carry geranyl acetate, lavender (46 of 338 carry it)
- Lemon thyme + Lemongrass
both carry borneol, piney camphor (17 of 338 carry it)
- Lemon thyme + Sage
both carry borneol, piney camphor (17 of 338 carry it)
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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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.json — Ntalli 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 fractions — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 identified — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli 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 hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-bisabolene', RI 1508)
Sources
- Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants