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Pork Tenderloin with Apples

"Pork tenderloin is cooked on the stovetop and covered with crisp apples in a wine sauce. Would work well with boneless chicken breast or pork chops as well."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Pork Tenderloin with Apples

Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,417 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Pork Tenderloin with Apples

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 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. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Olive + chickentop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Pepper + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,890 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Wine + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cinnamon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pork, pepper, wine, apple, chicken, apple cider vinegar):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. Cinnamonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pork, pepper, wine, apple, chicken, apple cider vinegar. 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).