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Raspberry

Raspberry is a berry with 205 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is alpha,beta-dihydro-beta-ionone. It pairs most strongly with strawberry, sharing 153 flavor compounds. Raspberry appears in 4,254 recipes, most commonly in world cuisine.

Raspberry ketone is character-impact compound. Floral violet-like ionones. Green fresh aldehydes. Intensely fruity berry character.

Scientific name: Rubus idaeus
species of plant
Raspberry — ingredient reference image
205
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

205 compounds

How Raspberry's 205 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

fruity 36 · 17.6%
sour 33 · 16.1%
floral 26 · 12.7%
green 22 · 10.7%
herbal 14 · 6.8%
other 9 · 4.4%
spicy 7 · 3.4%
caramel 4 · 2.0%
woody 4 · 2.0%
minty 4 · 2.0%

Most Used In

Flavor Compounds

59 of 205 are distinctive to raspberry — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in raspberry — 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.

Most Abundant Molecules

1 of 205 quantified

Ranked by median concentration across published studies. Only 1 of Raspberry's 205 compounds have a measured concentration in the literature — the rest are confirmed present but not yet quantified. Bars are log-scaled.

1 ethyl acetate 500.0 mg/kg

Best Pairings for Raspberry

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

Raspberry 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 raspberry — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Raspberry

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Research basis

Raspberry is supported by 654 peer-reviewed papers

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