TMAO
Marinesea air
TMAO is an aroma compound in the marine family, recognizable as sea air. It shows up in 11 ingredients in the escoff catalog.
01At a glance
Aroma familyMarine
Wheel notesea air
Found in11 ingredients
PotencyOdorless fresh; turns fishy with age.
02What it smells like
Odorless when fresh; the precursor to fishy TMA.
03Also found in· 3
saltwater fishshellfishsquid
04In the kitchen
A fresh-fish osmolyte that degrades into fishy trimethylamine as fish ages.
05Where it sits
Aroma family
sea air
06Found in these ingredients· 11
Cod
protein
Halibut
protein
Haddock
protein
Red Snapper
protein
Mahi-Mahi
protein
Sea Bass
protein
Flounder
protein
Catfish
protein
Pollock
protein
Crawfish
protein
Canned Tuna
protein
07Other marine compounds· 6