What’s up with coconut scented things? If you pick up a coconut right now and smell it, you’re not gonna smell anything. When you cut into it, you barely smell anything either. Yet, like everythin...
The molecule most noses would swear is coconut, gamma-nonalactone, has never actually been found in a coconut. GC-MS shows the fruit's real aroma is carried by a different set of lactones like delta-octalactone and delta-decalactone.
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