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Camembert Cheese

Camembert Cheese is a dairy with 132 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is carboxylic acids. It pairs most strongly with brie, sharing 22 flavor compounds. Camembert Cheese appears in 62 recipes.

scientific article published in March 2007
Camembert Cheese — ingredient reference image
132
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

132 compounds

How Camembert Cheese's 132 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

fruity 38 · 28.8%
sour 19 · 14.4%
floral 18 · 13.6%
green 12 · 9.1%
roasted 10 · 7.6%
sulfurous 8 · 6.1%
dairy 6 · 4.5%
earthy 2 · 1.5%
woody 2 · 1.5%
herbal 1 · 0.8%

Flavor Compounds

60 of 132 are distinctive to camembert cheese — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in camembert cheese — 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 Camembert Cheese

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.

Molecular Neighborhood

Camembert Cheese 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 camembert cheese — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Camembert Cheese

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Research basis

Camembert Cheese is supported by 309 peer-reviewed papers

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