Name: Pineapple Salad
Ingredients: Celery; Pineapple; Lettuce leaves; Mayonnaise dressing

Why it works: Celery and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,033 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pineapple Salad

Ingredients

Celery
Pineapple
Lettuce leaves
Mayonnaise dressing

Directions

Dice the celery.
Dice the pineapple.
Serve the diced celery and pineapple on lettuce leaves.
Drizzle with 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.

Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,033 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together271 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Celery + pineappletop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together230 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).