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Poached chicken

Meat, fish & cheese· meat

What it is

Poached chicken is chicken gently cooked by submerging it in liquid held just below a simmer.

What it tastes like

On the nose: rose, fatty, citrus, fruity. Among its measured molecules: pentanal, 1-octanol, 2-Octenal, heptanal, decanal.

Every one of its 9 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

• octanalaromaaldehydereads as fruity (PubChem)Measured in 40 of 341 ingredients.cite

  21.01 +/- 10.63 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (21.4 ug/kg, p = 0.96) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Octanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• 1-octanolaromaalcoholreads as fresh orange rose (PubChem)Measured in 20 of 341 ingredients.cite

  6.45 +/- 5.35 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (4.69 ug/kg, p = 0.74) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row '1-Octanol', 'PP Chicken' column)
• hexanalaromaaldehydereads as sharp, aldehyde (PubChem)Measured in 87 of 341 ingredients.cite

  660.81 +/- 369.67 ug/kg (estimated concentration) -- the largest peak in the shipped set; not significantly different from steamed (911 ug/kg, p = 0.47) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Hexanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• pentanalaromaaldehydereads as it has sharp, penetrating flavor (PubChem)Measured in 15 of 341 ingredients.cite

  58.22 +/- 39.61 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (31.67 ug/kg, p = 0.37) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Pentanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• heptanalaromaaldehydereads as fatty taste (PubChem)Measured in 34 of 341 ingredients.cite

  44.87 +/- 30.45 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (24.18 ug/kg, p = 0.36) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Heptanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• decanalaromaaldehydereads as citrus (PubChem)Measured in 37 of 341 ingredients.cite

  4.64 +/- 0.88 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (4.62 ug/kg, p = 0.99) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Decanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• 1-octen-3-olaromaalcoholMeasured in 38 of 341 ingredients.cite

  92.25 +/- 91.31 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (49.28 ug/kg, p = 0.51) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row '1-Octen-3-ol', 'PP Chicken' column)
• nonanalaromaaldehydereads as orange-rose (PubChem)Measured in 62 of 341 ingredients.cite

  40.8 +/- 17.78 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (45.31 ug/kg, p = 0.83) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row 'Nonanal', 'PP Chicken' column)
• 2-OctenalaromaaldehydeMeasured in 26 of 341 ingredients.cite

  4.64 +/- 4.53 ug/kg; not significantly different from steamed (5.28 ug/kg, p = 0.87) — Jiang et al. 2025, Foods (Table 3, row '2-Octenal, (E)-', 'PP Chicken' column)