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Passion Fruit and Guava Pops

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Passion fruit and guava share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenol, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

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Makes 8

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By epicurious. 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. Passion fruit + guavatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenol (green, grassy).

  2. Lime + guavatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lime + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Sugar + passion fruittop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together143 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + guavatop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, passion fruit, guava):

  1. Mangobetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, passion fruit, guava. 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).