Why it works: Pork and ranch work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 117 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. 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.
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Pork + ranchtop 5% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together117 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together29,030 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together5,083 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Cumin + avocadotop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together415 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
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Cumin + peppertop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together4,382 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the cumin
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, garlic, sugar, sauce, pepper, avocado):
- Corianderabout as good a flavor fit
- Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
- Cuminthe original
- Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, garlic, sugar, sauce, pepper, avocado. 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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