Apple Tapioca

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together41,516 recipes

   Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together8,706 recipes

   Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together118,967 recipes

   Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

4. Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together42,166 recipes

   Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

5. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together3,089 recipes

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

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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 (cream, butter, egg):

1. Vanillafits better
2. Strawberryfits better
3. Coconutfits better
4. Applethe original

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