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Salmon

Meat, fish & cheese· seafood

Salmon

What it is

Salmon is an anadromous fish in the family Salmonidae, born in fresh water, living mostly at sea, and returning to fresh water to spawn.

What it tastes like

On the nose: fruity, orange-rose. Among its measured molecules: 2,4-heptadienal, 1-penten-3-ol, octanal, benzaldehyde, nonanal.

What goes with it

160 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 6 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

  • benzaldehydearomaaldehydereads as burning aromatic taste (PubChem)Measured in 57 of 341 ingredients.cite
    high content in fresh raw salmon, significantly reduced during spoilage — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)
  • octanalaromaaldehydereads as fruity (PubChem)Measured in 40 of 341 ingredients.cite
    high content in fresh raw salmon, significantly reduced during spoilage — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)
  • hexanalaromaaldehydereads as sharp, aldehyde (PubChem)Measured in 87 of 341 ingredients.cite
    high content in fresh raw salmon, significantly reduced during spoilage — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)
  • 1-penten-3-olaromaalcoholMeasured in 13 of 341 ingredients.cite
    high content in fresh raw salmon, significantly reduced during spoilage — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)
  • nonanalaromaaldehydereads as orange-rose (PubChem)Measured in 62 of 341 ingredients.cite
    one of 18 compounds found at high content in fresh (Day-0) raw salmon by HS-SPME-GC-MS, with content significantly reduced as storage time and spoilage progressed at both 4 °C and 25 °C — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)
  • 2,4-heptadienalaromaaldehydeMeasured in 12 of 341 ingredients.cite
    high content in fresh raw salmon, significantly reduced during spoilage — Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules (Section 2.3, results prose on hierarchical clustering of significantly-changed VOCs)

Sources

  • Xuan et al. 2022, Molecules