Summer Savory is a herb with 232 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is carvacryl methyl ether. It pairs most strongly with sage, sharing 228 flavor compounds. Summer Savory appears in 764 recipes, most commonly in mexican cuisine.
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), Summer Savory's inventory contains 43. Most of the other 189 compounds are below detection threshold.
+ 31 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 Summer Savory's 232 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.
15 of 232 are distinctive to summer savory — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.
Ordered by measured impact in summer savory — 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.
Summer Savory 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.
Carvacrol, a phenolic monoterpene predominantly found in <i>Origanum</i> species, has been reported to exhibit antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and cytotoxic effects.... Read abstract →
We examined seed essential oil profiles in 10 Iranian cultivated populations of Satureja hortensis L. (summer savory-Lamiaceae) plants. Seed essential oils were extracted using the... Read abstract →
Summer savory (<i>Satureja hortensis</i> L.) is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the <i>Lamiaceae</i> family and widely used as a culinary spice. The present research aimed... Read abstract →
<h4>Introduction</h4>Summer savory is still not investigated thoroughly despite its potential and beneficial effects. Therefore, we aimed to investigate its chemical profile, therm... Read abstract →
Many aromatic herbs are conventionally used for flavoring various foods, but receive wide attention because of the variety of health-related properties. The aromatic herbs can be u... Read abstract →