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Kiwifruit Sorbet

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Kiwifruit and sugar work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 128 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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By williamssonoma. 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. Kiwifruit + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Lemon + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Kiwifruit + minttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Kiwifruit + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Lemon + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kiwifruit, sugar, lemon, egg):

  1. Mintthe original
  2. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peppermintabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against kiwifruit, sugar, lemon, egg. 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).