Perfect Pairings & Recipes forBlack Soy Sauce

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Flavour Analysis

Look beyond black soy sauce’s sugary sweetness and a less obvious register appears: molasses, kombu dashi and caramel. Bready aroma and warm aroma overlap beneath the surface, and koji and wheat notes give the profile a broader sensory foundation.

Dominant Flavour Families

Sweet
Maillard
Carnal / Animalic
Earthy
Vegetal

Flavour profile of black soy sauce

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Sugary

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Black soy sauce

SugarySweet

black soy sauce8.5

Pure, clean sweetness without depth or complexity, akin to table sugar or simple desserts. Strong in black soy sauce.

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