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Wholewheat Bread

Wholewheat Bread is a bakery with 52 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is methyl furfuryl disulfide. It pairs most strongly with cottage cheese, sharing 19 flavor compounds. Wholewheat Bread appears in 2 recipes.

Wholewheat Bread — ingredient reference image
52
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

52 compounds

How Wholewheat Bread's 52 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

green 8 · 15.4%
fruity 8 · 15.4%
other 5 · 9.6%
roasted 4 · 7.7%
sour 4 · 7.7%
sulfurous 3 · 5.8%
dairy 2 · 3.8%
floral 2 · 3.8%
caramel 1 · 1.9%
earthy 1 · 1.9%

Flavor Compounds

30 of 52 are distinctive to wholewheat bread — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in wholewheat bread — 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 Wholewheat Bread

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

Wholewheat Bread 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 wholewheat bread — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds

Recipes with Wholewheat Bread

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Research basis

Wholewheat Bread is supported by 123 peer-reviewed papers

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