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Dixie Pomegranate Salad

"This is a traditional Dixie salad that makes Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner great. Kids love this stuff!"

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Why it works: Pomegranate and banana share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Drain the pineapple tidbits well, pressing out excess juice, and place them in a large serving bowl.

  2. Peel and slice the bananas, then add them to the bowl with the pineapple.

  3. Peel, core, and chop the tart apple into pieces, then add to the bowl.

  4. Add the pomegranate seeds and chopped pecans to the bowl and toss gently to combine.

  5. In a small bowl, stir the mayonnaise and creamy salad dressing together until smooth.

  6. Spoon the mayonnaise mixture over the fruit and fold gently until everything is evenly coated.

  7. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving so the flavors blend.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pomegranate + bananatop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pineapple + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together732 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pineapple + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Banana + pecanstop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, pineapple, banana, apple):

  1. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Pistachioabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Chestnutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pomegranate, pineapple, banana, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).