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Tuna

Meat, fish & cheese· seafood

What it is

Tuna is a fast-swimming ocean fish in the tribe Thunnini, including species such as bluefin, yellowfin and albacore.

What it tastes like

On the nose: rose, fatty, fruity. Among its measured molecules: heptyl alcohol, propanal, 1-penten-3-ol, 1-octanol, 1-pentanol.

Every one of its 11 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

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

  relative peak area 1.35 +/- 0.01 (x10^-6) at Day 0 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row 'Octanal', 'Day 0' column)
• propanalaromaaldehydereads as similar to acetaldehyde (PubChem)Measured in 11 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 0.79 +/- 0.01 (x10^-6) at Day 0, rising to 20.90 by Day 6 of cold storage at 4 degrees C — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row 'Propanal', 'Day 0' column)
• 1-octanolaromaalcoholreads as fresh orange rose (PubChem)Measured in 20 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 7.88 +/- 5.21 (x10^-6) at Day 0 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Octanol', 'Day 0' column)
• hexanalaromaaldehydereads as sharp, aldehyde (PubChem)Measured in 87 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 8.61 +/- 0.12 (x10^-6) at Day 0, rising to 31.39-35.56 by Day 6 of cold storage — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row 'Hexanal', 'Day 0' column)
• 1-pentanolaromaalcoholMeasured in 20 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 0.96 +/- 0.18 (x10^-6) at Day 0 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Pentanol', 'Day 0' column)
• 1-hexanolaromaalcoholreads as fatty, fruity (PubChem)Measured in 50 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 4.03 +/- 1.51 (x10^-6) at Day 0, rising to 83.40 by Day 6 at 0 degrees C — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Hexanol', 'Day 0' column)
• heptyl alcoholaromaalcoholreads as fragrant (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 1.99 +/- 0.74 (x10^-6) at Day 0 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Heptanol', 'Day 0' column)
• heptanalaromaaldehydereads as fatty taste (PubChem)Measured in 34 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 5.74 +/- 0.12 (x10^-6) at Day 0 -- the second-largest aldehyde peak at this timepoint — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row 'Heptanal', 'Day 0' column)
• 1-penten-3-olaromaalcoholMeasured in 13 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 10.93 +/- 4.95 (x10^-6) at Day 0 -- the largest alcohol peak at this timepoint — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Penten-3-ol', 'Day 0' column)
• 1-octen-3-olaromaalcoholMeasured in 38 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 7.37 +/- 2.15 (x10^-6) at Day 0, rising to 77.27-88.0 by Day 3 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row '1-Octen-3-ol', 'Day 0' column)
• nonanalaromaaldehydereads as orange-rose (PubChem)Measured in 62 of 341 ingredients.cite

  relative peak area 1.21 +/- 0.04 (x10^-6) at Day 0 — Wang et al. 2019, Molecules (Table 1, row 'Nonanal', 'Day 0' column)