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1 We Now Know What Makes Durian So Stinky
- Author: modernfarmer.com
- Published Date: 04/24/2022
- Review: 4.82 (734 vote)
- Summary: · The flesh of the soccer-ball-sized fruit is a popular snack in parts of Asia, and it has a scent likened to that of rotten onions mixed with a
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2 Why Does the Durian Fruit Smell So Terrible?
- Author: smithsonianmag.com
- Published Date: 05/12/2022
- Review: 4.69 (416 vote)
- Summary: · Scientists examine what chemicals make the Asian fruit smell like “turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”
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3 The durian fruit’s smell is at odds with its taste | A Moment of Science
- Author: indianapublicmedia.org
- Published Date: 08/27/2022
- Review: 4.59 (290 vote)
- Summary: Durian is a fruit from southeast Asia, about the size of a melon with a thorny rind, and notable for its potent smell. The durian’s smell has been compared to smelly gym clothes, rotting meat, and even raw sewage . But if you’re able to make it bast the assault to your nose, it might be worth it
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4 If Durian Fruit Smell So Bad, How Does It Taste?
- Author: cookist.com
- Published Date: 06/09/2022
- Review: 4.19 (384 vote)
- Summary: When picking out a durian fruit to buy, locals will first smell it, the stronger it smells, the better it will taste! And what does it really taste like? Durian
- Matching search results: If you can get over the smell, it seems pretty cool to get a dessert-like snack from a tree. Plants are healthy, right? Well, sort of. The durian is high in vitamins and minerals, but due to its high carbohydrate content, it contributes …
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5 20 Attempts to Describe the Taste of Durian, the Worlds Smelliest Fruit
- Author: mentalfloss.com
- Published Date: 02/20/2022
- Review: 4.16 (248 vote)
- Summary: · Its taste and smell, however, take some getting used to. The creamy fruit is notoriously potent—in fact, it’s so smelly that Singapore’s public
- Matching search results: 17. “A rich custard highly flavored with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavor that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes.” —Alfred Russel Wallace, …
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6 What Does Durian Smell Like ? Heres What We Found Out
- Author: foodiosity.com
- Published Date: 03/30/2022
- Review: 3.98 (222 vote)
- Summary: · Durian has a very pungent smell that is best described as onions, rotting meat, stinky cheese, and something very similar to gasoline. It’s been
- Matching search results: Ethanethiol is made up of different chemicals that can be found in other foods, lending them their smell. A study managed to break down all the components that make up the powerful smell. It turns out there isn’t one but 50 different compounds that …
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7 Why does durian smell so bad?
- Author: idtdna.com
- Published Date: 04/08/2022
- Review: 3.73 (438 vote)
- Summary: · “Durian—by emanating an extremely pungent odor at ripening—appears to have the characteristic of a plant whose main dispersal vectors are odor-
- Matching search results: “Our analysis also suggests a potential association between MGL and ACS in the durian fruit, whose coordination may involve the Yang cycle,” researchers wrote, using the abbreviations for two enzymes. “Previous durian studies have also noted …
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