geosmin

• “It's an enzyme called geosmin that gives out the smell.”

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• “Beet aroma comes largely from an earthy-smelling molecule called geosmin, which was long thought to originate with soil microbes, but now appears also to be produced by the beet root itself.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “He said this was caused by a harmless chemical called geosmin produced by algae in the Voelvlei Dam near Gouda.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “When the algae dies their cells rupture and they release a chemical called geosmin, and that's predominately what gives us our taste and odor problem," Echols said.”

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• “Actinomycetes, which look like strands of fungus, break down rotting piles of vegetation, producing geosmin, the source of the aroma of healthy soil.”

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• “Acidity—whether in a poaching liquid, or in a buttermilk dip before frying— also mutes the volatility of fishy amines and aldehydes, and helps break down muddy-smelling geosmin that farmed freshwater fish catfish, carp sometimes accumulate from blue-green algae.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The chemical culprits are two compounds that are produced by blue-green algae, especially in warm weather geosmin and methylisoborneol.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The geosmin phenomenon is not unique to Cape Town: it occurs in dams throughout the country and the world.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The council says it is only geosmin, a chemical substance produced by the algae blooms that occur in storage dams in summer.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “In the United States, scientists are trying to find ways of controlling what they delicately call "off-taste" in fish-farm catfish, which absorb geosmin in their systems.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

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