Oyster is a seafood with 107 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is 1,5-octadien-3-one. It pairs most strongly with mace. Oyster appears in 12,765 recipes, most commonly in world cuisine.
Green fatty cucumber-like aldehydes with strong marine animal character. Metallic zinc notes. Mushroom-like vegetable and subtle dairy.
Compounds ranked by rarity — the higher the score, the more distinctive to this ingredient.
Of the ~226 molecules that drive perceived food aroma (Dunkel et al. 2014), Oyster's inventory contains 31. Most of the other 76 compounds are below detection threshold.
+ 19 more — showing top 12 by class and threshold.
Generalist = appears in >25% of foods (Maillard / fermentation products). Individualist = appears in <5% of foods (carries signature notes). Threshold values are in clean water — the actual perception threshold in a food matrix can differ substantially.
How Oyster's 107 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.
38 of 107 are distinctive to oyster — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.
Ordered by measured impact in oyster — 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.
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.
Oyster 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.
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Drawn from PubMed + Europe PMC + food-science journals. Click any title to read the full abstract on the original source.
OBJECTIVES: Aquaculture seafood production exists on every inhabited continent. Small-scale, bivalve shellfish farming is a growing industry on the East Coast of the United States.... Read abstract →
Oyster enzymatic hydrolysates (OEHs) derived from marine sources possess intensely unpleasant flavors, which severely limit their acceptance by consumers. Herein, V-type starches (... Read abstract →
This study aimed to determine the prevalence of V. parahaemolyticus in oysters from the northwestern coast of Mexico and to identify the serotypes, virulence factors, and antibioti... Read abstract →
In this study, GC-IMS was used to analyze the volatile component and flavor profiles of <i>Crassostrea gigas</i> individuals of different ploidy and gender. Principal component ana... Read abstract →
In recent years, annual cases of gastroenteritis have been reported in the world at high rates, suggesting an association with the consumption of shellfish with enteric viruses in... Read abstract →
