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A fruit and lettuce salad with apple, cantaloupe, grapefruit, cucumber, pawpaw, guava, mango, carambola, onion, white wine, honey.

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Why it works: Guava and mango share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make a doily around a fruit bowl with lettuce leaves.

  2. Cut all fruit in uniform pieces.

Make the dressing

  1. Mix the last four ingredients in a small bowl.

  2. Shake and pour over vegetables and fruits.

Assemble and serve

  1. Toss and decorate with carambolas and cherries.

  2. Chill and serve.

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Explore the science

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. Guava + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Melon + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Apple + melontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together86 recipes

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

  4. Apple + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together83 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Melon + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Honey
Adds sweetness and a sticky, moist coating to the fruit.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the dressing.
Young cucumber
Adds crisp texture and moisture.
Golden apple
Adds crisp texture and mild sweetness.
Ripe mangoes
Adds soft texture and sweetness.
Cantaloupe or honeydew melon
Adds juicy sweetness and moisture.

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, honey, melon, grapefruit, cucumber, guava, mango):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, honey, melon, grapefruit, cucumber, guava, mango. 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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