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Flavour Analysis

Fish sauce brings together emphatic salty character, sardine, musk and kombu dashi, all at once. A barnyard note lends farmy aroma, with a seaweed note adding marine aroma, and animal fat and rancio notes give the profile a nuanced, persistent finish.

Dominant Flavour Families

Carnal / Animalic
Maillard
Sharp
Vegetal
Earthy

Flavour profile of fish sauce

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Briny

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Fish sauce

BrinyEarthy

fish sauce9.0

Clear, clean salty mineral-like character similar to brine or seawater. Strong in fish sauce.

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