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Flavour Analysis

Pastry cream combines clear sugary sweetness with vanilla, milk and butter. A sulphur note brings intense aroma, with an animal fat note setting unctuous richness alongside it, and oleic acid and caramel notes give the profile a rounded, lingering character.

Dominant Flavour Families

Sweet
Carnal / Animalic
Maillard
Sharp
Vegetal

Flavour profile of pastry cream

150 dimensions grouped into 10 flavour families. Bar length shows relative prominence. Scale 0–10.

Sugary

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Pastry cream

SugarySweet

pastry cream8.0

Pure, clean sweetness without depth or complexity, akin to table sugar or simple desserts. Strong in pastry cream.

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