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Jicama Mango Slaw

"I tasted this in a Mexican restaurant on Friday and made it at home on Saturday! Crunchy, refreshing, and healthy!"

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Why it works: Mango and jicama work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 20 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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6 servings
Prep25 min

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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. Mango + jicamatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Jicama + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Mango + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Jicama + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, carrot, pepper, jicama, vinegar, lime, agave):

  1. Orangebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, carrot, pepper, jicama, vinegar, lime, agave. 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).