Name: Sugar-free Cranberry Sauce Recipe
Ingredients: 12 ounce bag of fresh cranberries; 1 cup orange juice; 1/2 teaspoon dried ginger; 2 teaspoons orage zest; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; dash of dried cloves; 1/2 cup crushed pineapple in juice (no-sugar added); 2 tablespoons; 1/2-1 cup; (to taste)

Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

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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.

Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,380 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,437 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Orange + gingertop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,833 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, ginger, cinnamon, clove, sugar):

Vanillafits better
Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, ginger, cinnamon, clove, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pineapple	1 cup chunks (165g)	82
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2

Sugar-free Cranberry Sauce Recipe