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Pomegranate Sweet Potatoes

"I don't like sweet potatoes, but this is good tasting and almost good for you. I love the convenience of plastic wrapped sweet potatoes that cook in the microwave for 4 minutes. Baking your own would work too."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Pomegranate Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Pomegranate and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 94 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

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4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook50 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. Pomegranate + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sweet potato + pomegranatetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Apple cider vinegar + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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