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Flavour Analysis

Look beyond pumpkin’s sweet earthy aroma and a less obvious register appears: cucumber, cut grass and chestnut. A honey note supplies golden sweetness, while a butter note threads in rich creaminess, and kombu dashi and hay notes give the profile its more complex finish.

Dominant Flavour Families

Maillard
Earthy
Vegetal
Sweet
Herbal / Herbaceous

Flavour profile of pumpkin

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Squashy

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Pumpkin

SquashyVegetal

pumpkin8.7

Sweet earthy aroma typical of cooked squash, with mild starchiness. Strong in pumpkin.

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To uncover the flavour notes that frequently appear together, 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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