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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.

1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together43,450 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

2. Banana + lemontop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,134 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

3. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together53,532 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

4. Banana + sugartop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together3,102 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

5. Banana + creamtop 23% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together1,180 recipes

   Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, sugar, cream):

1. Vanillafits better
2. Strawberryfits better
3. Pineapplefits better
4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, sugar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.