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Yellow Passionfruit

Yellow Passionfruit is a fruit with 33 known flavor compounds. The most distinctive molecule is 3-mercaptohexyl acetate. It pairs most strongly with white wine, sharing 20 flavor compounds.

Scientific name: Passiflora flavicarpa
species of plant
Wikidata Q22113821 (CC0)
Yellow Passionfruit — ingredient reference image
33
Flavor Compounds
8
Top Pairings of 856 scored

Flavor Science

Flavor Profile Breakdown

33 compounds

How Yellow Passionfruit's 33 known compounds break down by aroma category. Percentages are of compounds with a known label.

fruity 19 · 57.6%
caramel 2 · 6.1%
herbal 1 · 3.0%
dairy 1 · 3.0%
spicy 1 · 3.0%

Flavor Compounds

30 of 33 are distinctive to yellow passionfruit — they appear in under 10% of foods. The remainder are the background most foods share.

Ordered by measured impact in yellow passionfruit — 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.
3-mercaptohexyl acetate 2-phenylethyl hexanoate theaspirane gamma-undecalactone hexyl 2-methylbutanoate ethyl crotonate 2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanone 4-ethylphenol geranylacetone hexyl isovalerate 3-heptanone ethyl cinnamate isoamyl butyrate 2-acetylfuran isopropyl acetate furfuryl alcohol cis-3-hexenyl acetate cyclopentanone hexyl benzoate hexyl isobutyrate methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate ethyl acrylate cis-3-octen-1-ol ethyl acetoacetate trans-3-hexenoic acid unii-27y1fyy1bv s-methyl thioacetate ethyl cis-4-octenoate 1-p-menthen-9-al linaloyl oxide octyl butyrate pentyl hexanoate delta-octanolactone

Best Pairings for Yellow Passionfruit

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

Yellow Passionfruit 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 yellow passionfruit — top 10 ingredients ranked by shared volatile compounds
1
White Wine beverage alcoholic
20 shared compounds
42%
2
Passionfruit fruit
9 shared compounds
42%
3
Mountain Papaya fruit
4 shared compounds
42%
4
Sherry beverage alcoholic
10 shared compounds
41%
5
Parmesan Cheese dairy
6 shared compounds
32%
6
Blue Cheese dairy
5 shared compounds
31%
7
Honey plant derivative
4 shared compounds
30%
8
Chamomile essential oil
4 shared compounds
29%

Compare Yellow Passionfruit side-by-side

Yellow Passionfruit vs White Wine Yellow Passionfruit vs Passionfruit Yellow Passionfruit vs Mountain Papaya Yellow Passionfruit vs Sherry Yellow Passionfruit vs Parmesan Cheese Yellow Passionfruit vs Blue Cheese
Research basis

Yellow Passionfruit is supported by 50 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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