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Lima Beans

Lima Beans is a legume with 169 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is nerolidol. It pairs most strongly with okra, sharing 106 flavor compounds. Lima Beans appears in 773 recipes, most commonly in creole cuisine.

Lima Beans — ingredient reference image
169
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

169 compounds

How Lima Beans's 169 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

floral 27 · 16.0%
fruity 26 · 15.4%
green 22 · 13.0%
sour 15 · 8.9%
herbal 8 · 4.7%
roasted 7 · 4.1%
dairy 7 · 4.1%
spicy 6 · 3.6%
sulfurous 4 · 2.4%
caramel 4 · 2.4%

Most Used In

Creole (3) World (2) Persian (1) Japanese (1) Brazilian (1)

Flavor Compounds

44 of 169 are distinctive to lima beans — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in lima beans — 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.
2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine 4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene 4-hexen-1-ol trans-2-nonenal 2-acetylthiazole alpha-ionone cis-jasmone 2-acetylpyridine damascenone 3-methyl-2-buten-1-ol beta-ionone 3-heptanone allyl isothiocyanate 1-methylnaphthalene 2,3-pentanedione 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol guaiacol 3-hexanol maltol 4-vinylphenol 4-methyl-5-thiazoleethanol dimethyl sulfide isoamyl acetate gamma-butyrolactone nerolidol 1-phenylethanol gamma-nonanolactone 2-heptanol +97 more l-phenylalanine dl-phenylalanine isoliquiritigenin taxifolin daidzein luteolin phloretin naringenin apigenin kaempferol phlorizin l-histidine 3-hexenylisovalerate 5-hexenyl acetate 3-hexenyl butyrate 4,8,12-trimethyl-1,3,7,11-tridecatetraene 2-methyltetrahydrofuran-3-one (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol isopropanol octan-2-one coumestrol 2-isopropyl-6-methoxypyrazine isobutyl butyrate methyl propenyl ketone (e)-hept-2-enal calcium lactate daidzin d-lactic acid alpha-l-sorbopyranose alpha-maltose d-mannitol dl-liquiritigenin hydrogen cyanide hydrogen peroxide indole-3-acetic acid linamarin tributyrin (+)-delta-cadinene 4-hexen-3-one betaine thiamine l-lysine

Best Pairings for Lima Beans

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

Lima Beans 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 lima beans — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
1
Okra vegetable
106 shared compounds
69%
2
Corn maize
126 shared compounds
69%
3
Beans legume
162 shared compounds
86%
4
Onion vegetable
107 shared compounds
49%
5
Kidney Beans legume
90 shared compounds
83%
6
Peas legume
119 shared compounds
74%
7
Carrot vegetable root
114 shared compounds
53%
8
Tomato vegetable fruit
135 shared compounds
58%

Compare Lima Beans side-by-side

Lima Beans vs Okra Lima Beans vs Corn Lima Beans vs Beans Lima Beans vs Onion Lima Beans vs Kidney Beans Lima Beans vs Peas

Recipes with Lima Beans

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Baby Lima Beans

lima bean water
2 ingr. · 1 steps View →
Blanche Kammerer

Blanche Kammerer

corn lima bean milk
3 ingr. · 1 steps View →

Dried Lima Beans

lima bean salt
2 ingr. · 2 steps View →
Easy Lima Beans

Easy Lima Beans

onion chicken lima bean
3 ingr. View →
Succotash

Succotash

butter lima beans salt +3
6 ingr. View →
Lima Beans

Lima Beans

lima bean sugar salt +1
4 ingr. · 3 steps View →
Research basis

Lima Beans is supported by 425 peer-reviewed papers

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