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Tomato Sauce
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Character EDITORIAL
Tomato sauce smells warm, savoury and slightly acidic, with a cooked sweetness that deepens the longer it simmers.
Words: savory, warm, acidic, cooked. Families: Temperature and texture.
States: cooked (EDITORIAL). A state says how an entry is met, such as wet, aged or roasted. It does not create a new smell, and it adds no scientific fact by itself: states marked EDITORIAL come from the entry's own records, and only those marked VERIFIED are reported by a VERIFIED claim.
Met in: Kitchen.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- How processing changes tomato aroma (CLM-TOMATOPASTE-001). Ron G. Buttery, Roy Teranishi, Louisa C. Ling & Jean G. Turnbaugh, Quantitative and sensory studies on tomato paste volatiles, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 1990.
Molecules named in these claims: (E)-β-damascenone, 3-methylbutanal, dimethyl sulfide, eugenol, methional, β-ionone, (Z)-3-hexenal, hexanal. A molecule listed here is named in a VERIFIED claim about this smell. It is not presented as the cause of the smell; each claim says what its source supports.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Tomato Sauce (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:tomato-sauce. https://smellbook.com/smells/tomato-sauce
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