Why it works: Yogurt and berry work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 4Ingredients
Contains: milk, wheat (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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Yogurt + berrytop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together13 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Coconut + vanillatop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,294 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Vanilla + berrytop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together50 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Lemon + berrytop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together57 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Yogurt + vanillatop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together2,191 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, egg, coconut, yogurt, vanilla, berry):
- Blueberrybetter flavor fit
- Bananabetter flavor fit
- Cherrybetter flavor fit
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, egg, coconut, yogurt, vanilla, berry. 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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