Name: Fruit Punch
Ingredients: 1 gallon fruit (chopped peaches, oranges, pineapple, maraschino cherries); 10 gallons ice; lemon extract; raspberry extract

Why it works: Peach and raspberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 190 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fruit Punch

Ingredients

1 gallon fruit (chopped peaches, oranges, pineapple, maraschino cherries)
10 gallons ice
lemon extract
raspberry extract

Directions

Color the stock red.
Flavor with lemon and raspberry extract.
Combine the chopped fruits with the ice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

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.

Peach + raspberrytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together190 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Peach + pineappletop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,664 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Pineapple + raspberrytop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together195 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, orange, pineapple, raspberry):

Vanillafits better
Apricotfits better
Blackberryfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, orange, pineapple, raspberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.