Perfect Pairings & Recipes forDark Chocolate

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Flavour Analysis

Beneath dark chocolate’s familiar roasted notes lies a more intricate layering of toast, persimmon and coffee. A molasses note brings robust sweetness, while an assam tea note adds a dry sensation, and tobacco and loam notes give the profile a layered, lingering finish.

Dominant Flavour Families

Earthy
Maillard
Sharp
Spice
Floral

Flavour profile of dark chocolate

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Dark chocolate

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dark chocolate9.4

Roasted, bittersweet and chocolate notes distinctive of pure cacao or dark chocolate. Strong in dark chocolate.

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To understand the way flavour notes interact, we studied the ingredient pairings 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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