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Flavour Analysis

Bonito’s flavour profile spans several dimensions: powerful smoky depths, toast, char and ash. A sardine note brings distinct pungent fishiness, with a brine note setting a salty character alongside it, and rancio and koji notes give the profile a rounded, lingering character.

Dominant Flavour Families

Carnal / Animalic
Maillard
Woody
Sharp
Earthy

Flavour profile of bonito

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Smoky

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Bonito

SmokyMaillard

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Rich, aromatic wood-smoke notes distinctive of deliberately smoked foods. Strong in bonito.

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