Name: Chilled Papaya with Lime
Ingredients: 1 firm but ripe papaya, about 2 lb.; 1 lime, cut into 8 wedges

Why it works: Papaya and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chilled Papaya with Lime

Ingredients

1 firm but ripe papaya, about 2 lb.
1 lime, cut into 8 wedges

Directions

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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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Papaya + limetop 2% of all pairs

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Cooked together91 recipes

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

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