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Sweet Grass

Sweet Grass is an essential oil with 16 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is safranal. It pairs most strongly with sorghum. Sweet Grass appears in 1 recipes.

Scientific name: Hierochloë odorata
aromatic herb which grows in northern Eurasia and North America
Wikidata Q161162 (CC0)
16
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

16 compounds

How Sweet Grass's 16 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

fruity 3 · 18.8%
herbal 2 · 12.5%
floral 2 · 12.5%
minty 2 · 12.5%
green 2 · 12.5%
dairy 1 · 6.2%
sour 1 · 6.2%

Flavor Compounds

9 of 16 are distinctive to sweet grass — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in sweet grass — 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.
safranal 3-hexanol isophorone 2-(4-methylphenyl)propan-2-ol gamma-nonanolactone thymol methyl salicylate methyl linoleate nonanal tetradecanoic acid phenylacetaldehyde 3-hexanone unii-847o2v0ioa 4,4,7a-trimethyl-5,6,7,7a-tetrahydrobenzofuran-2(4h)-one (+)-pulegone d-piperitone

Best Pairings for Sweet Grass

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

Sweet Grass 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 sweet grass — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
1
Sorghum cereal
19%
2
Apple Cider Vinegar plant derivative
18%
3
Whisky beverage alcoholic
4 shared compounds
25%
4
Rosemary herb
7 shared compounds
20%
5
Peppermint herb
6 shared compounds
22%
6
Cider beverage alcoholic
24%
7
Lamb meat
4 shared compounds
12%
8
White Pepper spice
17%

Compare Sweet Grass side-by-side

Sweet Grass vs Sorghum Sweet Grass vs Apple Cider Vinegar Sweet Grass vs Whisky Sweet Grass vs Rosemary Sweet Grass vs Peppermint Sweet Grass vs Cider

Recipes with Sweet Grass

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Tennessee Whiskey and Sorghum Brined Leg of Lamb with Geechie Boy Grit Cakes with Sweet Grass Dairy Georgia Gouda

Tennessee Whiskey and Sorghum Brined Leg of Lamb with Geechie Boy Grit Cakes with Sweet Grass Dairy Georgia Gouda

apple cider whiskey vinegar +23
26 ingr. View →
Research basis

Sweet Grass is supported by 51 peer-reviewed papers

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