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CLM-FRIEDONION-001 · VERIFIED

Volatiles of onions heated in butter

Heating onions in butter forms a large number of volatile compounds, more than 120 of which were identified by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, most of them not characteristic of onion aroma.

SCOPE

A 1975 study of onions heated in butter; its abstract names no single compound.

SUPPORT CHECK

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).

LIFECYCLE

active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0

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