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Red Rice

Red Rice is a cereal with 215 known flavor compounds. Red Rice appears in 23 recipes, most commonly in japanese cuisine. Red Rice 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: Oryza rufipogon
species of plant
Red Rice — ingredient reference image
215
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

215 compounds

How Red Rice's 215 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

other 38 · 17.7%
sour 31 · 14.4%
floral 24 · 11.2%
fruity 21 · 9.8%
green 21 · 9.8%
roasted 16 · 7.4%
herbal 14 · 6.5%
spicy 10 · 4.7%
sulfurous 7 · 3.3%
woody 3 · 1.4%

Most Used In

Flavor Compounds

6 of 215 are distinctive to red rice — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in red rice — 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 Red Rice

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 red rice. 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

Red Rice 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 red rice — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Red Rice

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Research basis

Red Rice is supported by 1,200 peer-reviewed papers

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