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Rice vinegar

Savory & ferment· ferment vinegar

Rice vinegar

What it is

Rice vinegar is vinegar made by fermenting rice, first into a mild alcohol and then into vinegar with vinegar-forming bacteria.

What it tastes like

On the nose: smokey, pear, apple, almond. Among its measured molecules: 4-ethylphenol, ethyl benzoate, 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, diethyl succinate, guaiacol.

What goes with it

188 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.

  • acetic acidtasteacidreads as pungent (PubChem)Measured in 35 of 338 ingredients.cite
    6,119,026.91 ± 530,020.51 µg/L -- roughly ten times the next-largest compound in the same sample and columnLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4 (Content information of vinegar compounds (μg/L)), row 19 (identified in Table 2 as 'acetic acid'), column 'B4')
  • benzaldehydearomaaldehydereads as burning aromatic taste (PubChem)Measured in 54 of 338 ingredients.cite
    7281.14 ± 0.96 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 14 (Table 2: 'benzaldehyde'), column 'B4')
  • guaiacolaromaphenolreads as aromatic odor (PubChem)Measured in 15 of 338 ingredients.cite
    593.83 ± 117.46 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 32 (Table 2: 'guaiacol'), column 'B4')
  • phenylacetaldehydearomaaldehydeMeasured in 21 of 338 ingredients.cite
    23,161.05 ± 76.12 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 15 (Table 2: 'phenylethanal'), column 'B4')
  • phenylethyl alcoholaromaalcoholreads as sharp burning taste (PubChem)Measured in 41 of 338 ingredients.cite
    565,184.73 ± 42,979.58 µg/L -- essentially tied with ethyl acetate for the second-largest compound in this sampleLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 28 (Table 2: 'phenethyl alcohol'), column 'B4')
  • ethyl benzoatearomaesterMeasured in 6 of 338 ingredients.cite
    2766.54 ± 4.32 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 8 (Table 2: 'ethyl benzoate'), column 'B4')
  • furfuralaromafuranreads as almond-like odor (PubChem)Measured in 33 of 338 ingredients.cite
    514.31 ± 4.86 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 36 (Table 2: 'furfural'), column 'B4')
  • 2-methylbutyric acidtasteacidMeasured in 4 of 338 ingredients.cite
    9544.95 ± 925.82 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 23 (Table 2: '2-methylbutyric acid'), column 'B4')
  • ethyl acetatearomaesterreads as fragrant odor (PubChem)Measured in 42 of 338 ingredients.cite
    571,951.58 ± 3619.70 µg/L -- the largest ester and second-largest compound overall in this sampleLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 1 (Table 2: 'ethyl acetate'), column 'B4')
  • 3-methylbutanalaromaaldehydereads as apple-like odor (PubChem)Measured in 22 of 338 ingredients.cite
    35,396.43 ± 20.06 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 12 (Table 2: '3-methylbutyraldehyde'), column 'B4')
  • 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazinearomapyrazineMeasured in 6 of 338 ingredients.cite
    53,390.76 ± 5265.10 µg/L -- the third-largest compound in the whole 52-compound table for this sample, and a classic Maillard/roasted-grain markerLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 46 (Table 2: '2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine'), column 'B4')
  • 4-ethylphenolaromaphenolreads as sweet smokey (PubChem)Measured in 3 of 338 ingredients.cite
    14.55 ± 0.59 µg/L -- the smallest compound in this profile, kept because it is a phenol and this brief specifically asks for phenolic representationLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 35 (Table 2: '4-ethylphenol'), column 'B4')
  • diethyl succinatearomaesterMeasured in 8 of 338 ingredients.cite
    1881.49 ± 200.04 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 9 (Table 2: 'diethyl succinate'), column 'B4')
  • isoamyl alcoholaromaalcoholMeasured in 43 of 338 ingredients.cite
    13,010.93 ± 167.42 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 26 (Table 2: '3-methyl-1-butanol'), column 'B4')
  • isoamyl acetatearomaesterreads as pear-like odor (PubChem)Measured in 26 of 338 ingredients.cite
    22,149.40 ± 183.22 µg/LLiang et al. 2022, Foods (Table 4, row 5 (Table 2: 'isoamyl acetate'), column 'B4')

Sources

  • Liang et al. 2022, Foods