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Taco Pizza

By whatsgabycooking · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and naan work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and 3 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. 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.

  1. Corn + naantop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Corn + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Beans + lettucetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together499 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Beans + cheddar cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together525 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Corn + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, naan, beans, cheddar cheese, lettuce):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, naan, beans, cheddar cheese, lettuce. 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).