Truffle oil
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Truffle oil is a culinary oil — usually olive or a neutral seed oil — carrying the pungent, garlicky-earthy aroma of truffle. It is used as a finishing oil, drizzled over pasta, risotto, eggs, fries and pizza off the heat to lend a luxurious truffle note for a fraction of the cost of the fungus itself. The great majority of truffle oil on the market is aromatised not with real truffle but with a synthetic flavour compound, 2,4-dithiapentane.
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Per 100 g
884kcal
0gcarbs
0gprotein
100gfat
0gfibre
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Most commercial truffle oil contains no truffle: it is a base oil flavoured with the lab-made aroma compound 2,4-dithiapentane (bis(methylthio)methane), the single molecule most responsible for the characteristic truffle smell.
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