Why it works: Pork and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,577 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 4Ingredients
Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
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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.
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Pork + appletop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,577 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
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Sweet potato + yamtop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together99 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Pork + olivetop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together5,980 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Pork + mustardtop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,440 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Pork + buttertop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together13,848 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the yam
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, olive, apple, mustard, butter, sweet potato):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Potatobetter flavor fit
- Tomatobetter flavor fit
- Yamthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, olive, apple, mustard, butter, sweet potato. 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).
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