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Flavour Analysis

Catfish begin with a vivid impression of fresh earthiness, before animal fat, oleic acid and loam emerge underneath. Beneath those first notes sit kombu dashi and copper, and poultry and game notes give the profile a final layer of depth and contrast.

Dominant Flavour Families

Carnal / Animalic
Earthy
Maillard
Vegetal
Herbal / Herbaceous

Flavour profile of catfish

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Catfish

PetrichorEarthy

catfish6.4

Fresh, earthy aroma after rain, wet soil and stones. Strong in catfish.

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To understand which flavour notes are strongly associated with each other, we analysed the ingredient combinations in more than 30,000 recipes. We broke down each ingredient into its constituent flavour notes. Then we identified which flavour notes repeatedly appear together across these pairings, revealing the underlying associations that make ingredients harmonise.

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