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Use of Gas Chromatography−Olfactometry To Identify Key Odorant Compounds in Dark Chocolate. Comparison of Samples before and after Conching
Christine Counet et al.
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI 10.1021/jf0114177CLM-CHOCOLATE-002 · VERIFIED
Three odorants with a chocolate note in dark chocolate
Aroma extract dilution analysis of dark chocolates revealed 33 potent odorants, three of which the study described as having a strong chocolate flavour: 2-methylpropanal, 2-methylbutanal and 3-methylbutanal.
Odorants reported from the neutral/basic volatile fraction of dark chocolates sampled before and after conching.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).
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CANONICAL PROFILES1
MOLECULES THIS CLAIM NAMES3
- 2-methylbutanal · Linked to the odour · the claim says “a strong chocolate flavour”
- 3-methylbutanal · Linked to the odour · the claim says “a strong chocolate flavour”
- 2-methylpropanal · Linked to the odour · the claim says “a strong chocolate flavour”
Each molecule page shows the other entries whose evidence names it. A molecule named here is not the whole smell.
SUPPORTING SOURCES1
Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:three-odorants-with-a-chocolate-note · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-06 · sha256 5c7fe650477f.