In the headspace of cooked sweet corn, dimethyl sulfide was the most abundant aroma volatile, and sensory monitoring of the separated compounds found it the primary factor in cooked corn aroma, along with hydrogen sulfide, methanethiol and, to a lesser degree, ethanethiol.
Scope: The source concerns cooked and processed sweet corn and says nothing about raw kernels or husk; in the same study aroma contributed 15% to panelists' overall flavour scores. CLM-SWEETCORN-001 ↗
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Cite as SmellBook. (2026). hydrogen sulfide (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, unreleased changes since the dataset release of 2026-10-05. smellbook:molecule:hydrogen-sulfide. https://smellbook.com/molecules/hydrogen-sulfide
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