Name: Miso Soup
Ingredients: 1/2 package soybean curd, soaked in agenerous amount of water and cut into small cubes; 20g Wakame seaweed (Latin name: Undaria pinnatifida), cut into bite-size; 4 1/2 cup Dashijiru; 3 Tbsp. miso; 1/2 Welsh onion, sliced; 1/2 package fried bean curd, parboiled and draind in a strainer and cut into 2cm sections; 8 taros

Why it works: Wakame and welsh onion share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Miso Soup

Ingredients

1/2 package soybean curd, soaked in agenerous amount of water and cut into small cubes
20g Wakame seaweed (Latin name: Undaria pinnatifida), cut into bite-size
4 1/2 cup Dashijiru
3 Tbsp. miso
1/2 Welsh onion, sliced
1/2 package fried bean curd, parboiled and draind in a strainer and cut into 2cm sections
8 taros

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

78Calories

3 gProtein

1 gFat

14 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 8 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Welsh Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Miso	1 tbsp (18g)	34
Soybean	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0
Wakame	not in our table	0
Seaweed	not in our table	0
Bean	not in our table	0
Taro	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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.

Wakame + welsh oniontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Welsh onion + tarotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Wakame + misotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Miso + welsh oniontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together125 recipes

Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).
Wakame + tarotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1 recipe

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the seaweed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (soybean, wakame, miso, welsh onion, taro):

Chivefits better
Kalefits better
Lettucefits better
Seaweedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against soybean, wakame, miso, welsh onion, taro. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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