Rocket Salad is a herb with 234 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is 3-hexenal. It pairs most strongly with watercress, sharing 206 flavor compounds. Rocket Salad appears in 18 recipes.
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), Rocket Salad's inventory contains 44. Most of the other 190 compounds are below detection threshold.
+ 32 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 Rocket Salad's 234 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.
18 of 234 are distinctive to rocket salad — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.
Ordered by measured impact in rocket salad — 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.
Rocket Salad 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.
Culinary herbs and spices are highly valued for their contribution to aroma, color, and overall flavor in traditional foods. Microbial inactivation in fresh herbs and spices is cha... Read abstract →
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In this study, the influence of a new plant-based biostimulant (Bortan) on physiological and aromatic traits of rocket (<i>Diplotaxis tenuifolia</i> L. var. Pamela) was monitored b... Read abstract →
To investigate in detail the volatilomes of various Brassicaceae species, landraces, and accessions, and to extract specific volatile markers, volatile aroma compounds were isolate... Read abstract →
Plasma activated water (PAW) has proven to be a promising alternative for the decontamination of rocket leaves. The impact of PAW on the volatile profile, phytosterols, and pigment... Read abstract →
