Name: Radish Salad No. 2
Ingredients: two bunches of radishes; one head of lettuce around the salad bowl; one spanish onion

Why it works: Radish and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Radish Salad No. 2

Ingredients

two bunches of radishes
one head of lettuce around the salad bowl
one spanish onion

Directions

Slice two bunches of radishes, and shred one Spanish onion, mixing them well together. Arrange one head of lettuce around the salad bowl, heap the radishes and onion in the center, and pour over ripe olive dressing. Garnish with strips of red peppers.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

49Calories

2 gProtein

0 gFat

11 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 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
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lettuce	1 cup shredded (36g)	5
Salad	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.

By Olive M. Hulse. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

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.

Radish + lettucetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together58 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Lettuce + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,562 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Radish + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together323 recipes

Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).