Sandwiches with Sliced Tender Meat for Filling

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

1. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,790 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,924 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

3. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together16,478 recipes

   Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

4. Meat + appletop 28% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together787 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

5. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together8,638 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, sugar):

1. Figfits better
2. Vanillafits better
3. Raisinfits better
4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, bread, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.