Name: Avocado and Pineapple Salad
Ingredients: 1 ripe avocado; 1 cup cubed pineapple; French dressing or mayonnaise dressing

Why it works: Avocado and pineapple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 71 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Avocado and Pineapple Salad

Ingredients

1 ripe avocado
1 cup cubed pineapple
French dressing or mayonnaise dressing

Directions

Slice the avocado into small pieces.
Mix the avocado with the cubed pineapple.
Serve with French dressing or mayonnaise dressing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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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.

Avocado + pineappletop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together71 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocado: Provides creamy, soft texture and a rich, buttery body to the salad.
Pineapple: Adds sweetness and juicy texture that contrasts with the creamy avocado.

“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.