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Citrus Peel Oil

Citrus Peel Oil is an essential oil with 57 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is nerolidol. It pairs most strongly with date, sharing 22 flavor compounds. Citrus Peel Oil appears in 48 recipes.

scientific article published on April 1, 1992
Citrus Peel Oil — ingredient reference image
57
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

57 compounds

How Citrus Peel Oil's 57 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

floral 15 · 26.3%
fruity 15 · 26.3%
herbal 11 · 19.3%
green 7 · 12.3%
woody 2 · 3.5%
minty 1 · 1.8%
caramel 1 · 1.8%
sour 1 · 1.8%

Flavor Compounds

26 of 57 are distinctive to citrus peel oil — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in citrus peel oil — 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 Citrus Peel Oil

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

Citrus Peel Oil 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 citrus peel oil — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
Research basis

Citrus Peel Oil is supported by 101 peer-reviewed papers

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