Why it works: Pineapple and parsley work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓
Pineapple Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the pineapple and cut it into large dice.
Toss the pineapple with the mayonnaise.
Serve in a pile in a salad bowl and sprinkle with chopped parsley if desired.
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.
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Pineapple + parsleytop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together95 recipes
Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
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Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,693 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Pineapple + saucetop 29% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together360 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Pineapple
- Provides the sweet, juicy fruit that forms the body of the salad.
- Mayonnaise sauce
- Adds fat and creaminess, coating the pineapple pieces and giving the salad a rich texture.
Swap the parsley
The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sauce):
- Gingerfits better
- Corianderfits better
- Capersfits better
- Parsleythe original
Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
“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.
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