Name: Peach Mangoes
Ingredients: ripe free-stone peaches; finely chopped tomatoes; finely chopped cabbage; grated horseradish; mustard seed; hot spiced vinegar

Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Rub off the fur from the peaches and split them open.
Remove the pits from the peaches.
Fill the cavity of each peach with chopped tomatoes, cabbage, horseradish, and mustard seed.
Reassemble the peaches and tie them together with string.
Place the tied peaches in a jar and cover with hot spiced vinegar.

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.

Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,832 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cabbage + horseradishtop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together481 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,645 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,067 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Peach + tomatotop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together143 recipes

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

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, cabbage, horseradish, mustard, vinegar):

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Cherryfits better
Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, cabbage, horseradish, mustard, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.