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Sesame seed + Sesame oil
Affinity score 92%Shared compounds 19Source: modal-canonical-v3
Sesame seed
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Sesame oil
Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as a cooking oil, it is used as a flavor enhancer in many cuisines, having a distinctive nutty aroma and taste.The oil is one of the earliest-known crop-based oils.
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both Sesame seed and Sesame oil, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
sesamolinsesaminoldg(24:1(15z)/14:1(9z)/0:0)dg(24:1(15z)/14:0/0:0)dg(24:0/14:1(9z)/0:0)dg(24:0/14:0/0:0)dg(22:6(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:1(9z)/0:0)dg(22:6(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:1(11z)/0:0)dg(22:6(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:0/0:0)dg(22:6(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/16:0/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:2(9z,12z)/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:1(9z)/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/18:1(11z)/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/16:1(9z)/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/16:0/0:0)dg(22:5(7z,10z,13z,16z,19z)/14:0/0:0)dg(22:5(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z)/18:2(9z,12z)/0:0)dg(22:5(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z)/18:1(9z)/0:0)dg(22:5(4z,7z,10z,13z,16z)/18:1(11z)/0:0)
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Sesame seed and Sesame oil overlap on 19 key compound(s), which is why classic culinary traditions, and our deterministic matching algorithm, place them together.
Verification
- Pairing computed by: pairing-compute
- Methodology: deterministic compound-overlap matching (no LLM)
- Compound data: Wikidata + Wikidata
- Part of: Living Gastronomic Intelligence graph