Mallard duck + Pork
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 449 recipes, and they share 195 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs.
Do mallard duck and pork go together?
Yes. 449 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 195 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 2% of every ingredient pair we score.
Why they work
Almost everything mallard duck carries, pork has too: 195 of mallard duck's 221 flavor molecules also occur in pork. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green) and 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
What each one brings
mallard duck
The tartness. Sour notes make up 24% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 17% for pork. It carries 26 molecules pork doesn't have.
pork
The fruit. Fruity notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for mallard duck. It carries 229 molecules mallard duck doesn't have.
Add a third ingredient
- Greylag goose: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with mallard duck, top 7% with pork.
- Quail: top 1% of pairs with mallard duck, top 7% with pork.
- Rabbit: top 1% of pairs with mallard duck, top 6% with pork.
- Pheasant: top 1% of pairs with mallard duck, top 8% with pork.
Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.
Recipes with mallard duck and pork
We have no browsable recipe that lists both mallard duck and pork.
Can you swap one for the other?
Only partly. Almost all of mallard duck's flavor molecules (195 of 221) are also found in pork, but pork has 229 that mallard duck lacks. Mallard duck gives you part of pork's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.
All 195 shared molecules
See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 26 only in mallard duck and the 229 only in pork.
Mallard duck and pork questions
Do mallard duck and pork go together?
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 449 recipes, and they share 195 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs.
Why do mallard duck and pork taste good together?
Almost everything mallard duck carries, pork has too: 195 of mallard duck's 221 flavor molecules also occur in pork. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green) and 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
What goes with mallard duck and pork?
Greylag goose is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with mallard duck and top 7% with pork. Quail and rabbit also fit both.
Can I use pork instead of mallard duck?
Only partly. Almost all of mallard duck's flavor molecules (195 of 221) are also found in pork, but pork has 229 that mallard duck lacks. Mallard duck gives you part of pork's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.
Compare other ingredients
Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs
Cite this analysis
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Mallard Duck vs Pork. https://compkitchen.com/compare/mallard-duck-vs-pork. Accessed 2026-11-05.
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title = {Compound similarity analysis: Mallard Duck vs Pork},
author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/mallard-duck-vs-pork},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}
Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.