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Fruit Salad with Mint Honey-Lime Dressing

"Freshen up your summer salad with a honey-lime dressing. Surprisingly sweet, the honey heightens the freshness of summer's best picks."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and papaya work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 38 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings

Ingredients

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

  • Fruit Salad

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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. Mint + papayatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together38 recipes

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

  2. Mint + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together846 recipes

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

  3. Pineapple + papayatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Grape + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together704 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Lime + papayatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together91 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mint, lime, yogurt, vinegar, pineapple, papaya):

  1. Mangobetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Melonbetter flavor fit
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mint, lime, yogurt, vinegar, pineapple, papaya. 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).