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Jerusalem Artichoke

Jerusalem Artichoke is a root vegetable with 223 known flavor compounds. Jerusalem Artichoke appears in 458 recipes, most commonly in indian cuisine. Jerusalem Artichoke 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: Helianthus tuberosus
species of sunflower native to eastern North America (for the root vegetable use Q55706475)
223
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

223 compounds

How Jerusalem Artichoke's 223 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

sour 37 · 16.6%
other 37 · 16.6%
floral 26 · 11.7%
fruity 24 · 10.8%
green 19 · 8.5%
roasted 16 · 7.2%
herbal 13 · 5.8%
spicy 9 · 4.0%
sulfurous 7 · 3.1%
woody 3 · 1.3%

Most Used In

Flavor Compounds

6 of 223 are distinctive to jerusalem artichoke — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in jerusalem artichoke — 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 Jerusalem Artichoke

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 jerusalem artichoke. 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

Jerusalem Artichoke 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 jerusalem artichoke — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Jerusalem Artichoke

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Research basis

Jerusalem Artichoke is supported by 1,228 peer-reviewed papers

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