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Ginkgo Nuts

Ginkgo Nuts is a nut with 233 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is heptacosane. It pairs most strongly with shiitake, sharing 206 flavor compounds. Ginkgo Nuts appears in 2 recipes.

Ginkgo Nuts — ingredient reference image
233
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

233 compounds

How Ginkgo Nuts's 233 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

other 38 · 16.3%
sour 35 · 15.0%
floral 27 · 11.6%
green 20 · 8.6%
fruity 19 · 8.2%
herbal 16 · 6.9%
roasted 16 · 6.9%
spicy 9 · 3.9%
sulfurous 7 · 3.0%
woody 6 · 2.6%

Flavor Compounds

17 of 233 are distinctive to ginkgo nuts — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in ginkgo nuts — 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 Ginkgo Nuts

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

Ginkgo Nuts 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 ginkgo nuts — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Ginkgo Nuts

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Research basis

Ginkgo Nuts is supported by 1,196 peer-reviewed papers

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