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Scarlet Bean

Scarlet Bean is a legume with 199 known flavor compounds. Scarlet Bean 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: Archidendron lucyi
species of plant in the family Fabaceae
Scarlet Bean — ingredient reference image
199
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

199 compounds

How Scarlet Bean's 199 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

other 33 · 16.6%
sour 27 · 13.6%
floral 23 · 11.6%
green 19 · 9.5%
fruity 19 · 9.5%
roasted 16 · 8.0%
herbal 13 · 6.5%
spicy 8 · 4.0%
sulfurous 7 · 3.5%
woody 3 · 1.5%

Flavor Compounds

Thin profile. Only 2 of 199 compounds here are specific to scarlet bean; the rest are carried by most foods. Results are weakly supported.

Ordered by measured impact in scarlet bean — 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 Scarlet Bean

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 scarlet bean. 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

Scarlet Bean 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 scarlet bean — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
Research basis

Scarlet Bean is supported by 1,080 peer-reviewed papers

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