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Mountain Hare

Mountain Hare is a meat with 187 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is pimelic acid. It pairs most strongly with bison, sharing 176 flavor compounds.

Scientific name: Lepus timidus
species of mammal
Mountain Hare — ingredient reference image
187
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

187 compounds

How Mountain Hare's 187 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

sour 57 · 30.5%
other 35 · 18.7%
floral 21 · 11.2%
roasted 18 · 9.6%
green 14 · 7.5%
fruity 14 · 7.5%
sulfurous 7 · 3.7%
spicy 6 · 3.2%
woody 4 · 2.1%
dairy 3 · 1.6%

Flavor Compounds

57 of 187 are distinctive to mountain hare — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in mountain hare — 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 Mountain Hare

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

Mountain Hare 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 mountain hare — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
Research basis

Mountain Hare 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.