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Pink Grapefruit & Orange Compote with Ginger Yogurt

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Why it works: Grapefruit and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 232 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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Serves 4

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Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By cookincanuck. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Grapefruit + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Orange + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,833 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Grapefruit + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Agave + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Agave + yogurttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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