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Guava-Lime Cooler

Guava is a tropical fruit with a pink flesh and hints of apple and strawberry. Guava nectar is available at both gourmet and Mexican grocery stores. This recipe can be multiplied to make a large batch.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Guava and rum share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

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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. Guava + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Guava + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Rum + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Rum + syruptop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together367 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lime + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together322 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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