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Arrowroot

Arrowroot is a root vegetable with 206 known flavor compounds. Arrowroot appears in 1,935 recipes, most commonly in indian cuisine. Arrowroot has no compounds unique to it in our source data — its profile is made up entirely of volatiles common across many foods, so we don't report a signature molecule or a top pairing for it.

Scientific name: Maranta arundinacea
species of plant
Arrowroot — ingredient reference image
206
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

206 compounds

How Arrowroot's 206 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

other 35 · 17.0%
sour 31 · 15.0%
floral 24 · 11.7%
green 19 · 9.2%
fruity 19 · 9.2%
roasted 16 · 7.8%
herbal 13 · 6.3%
spicy 8 · 3.9%
sulfurous 7 · 3.4%
woody 3 · 1.5%

Most Used In

Flavor Compounds

No chemistry specific to arrowroot has been recorded. Every compound below appears in more than 10% of the foods in the graph — these are the vitamins, amino acids and common fatty acids nearly everything carries, not this ingredient’s aroma profile. Treat pairings involving it as unsupported until it is characterised.

Ordered by measured impact in arrowroot — concentration against odour threshold where both are published, then by how distinctive the molecule is across the graph. Molecules measured here but not established as odorants sit below those that are.

Molecules volatile enough to reach the nose.

Best Pairings for Arrowroot

Ranked by how often cooks actually use them together, across 453,403 recipes — the familiar answer first. Each pairing still carries its molecular score and shared-compound count; only the ORDER differs. Counts cover every characterised molecule the two ingredients have in common, not only the aroma-active ones, so they can exceed an ingredient’s aroma-compound count. For the chemistry-first view — where the surprising pairings live — see the molecular network below, the side-by-side comparison, or the Pairing Tool.

Limited data for this ingredient

Our sources don't yet contain a dedicated aroma analysis for arrowroot. Its profile is built entirely from volatiles that are common across many foods, with none specific to it — so the ranking below reflects that shared background, not a distinct molecular match. Treat it as a placeholder until we have GC‑MS coverage for this ingredient.

Molecular Neighborhood

Arrowroot and its 10 closest compound-sharing relatives. Spoke thickness = shared compounds; circle size = that ingredient's own compound count. Drag to rearrange, scroll to zoom, click to open.

Molecular neighborhood diagram of arrowroot — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Arrowroot

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Research basis

Arrowroot is supported by 1,142 peer-reviewed papers

Drawn from PubMed + Europe PMC + food-science journals. Click any title to read the full abstract on the original source.