Dulce buttons are tiny, super-super-sweet flowers with an anise/thyme/mint flavor. Thanks to a unique sesquiterpene compound called “hernandulcin” they are 500 to 1,500 times sweeter than sugar (on a molecule by molecule basis), depending on how you measure.

Sesquiterpenes are complex terpines, which are organic compounds commonly found in plants’ resins and essential oils.