Name: Easy Rice Salad
Ingredients: Salsa; cooked rice, chilled; cooked black beans; corn; avocado, chopped

Why it works: Rice and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 942 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Mix cooked chilled rice with black beans, corn, chopped avocado and salsa.

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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.

Rice + beanstop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together942 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,211 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Beans + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together375 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Rice + corntop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together895 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Corn + avocadotop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together444 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, beans, corn):

Avocadothe original
Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, beans, corn. 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).