Banana Fritters

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together81,283 recipes

   Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

2. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together124,287 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

4. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together78,219 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

5. Banana + buttertop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,536 recipes

   Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 (flour, milk, butter):

1. Vanillafits better
2. Raisinfits better
3. Coconutfits better
4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.