Pumpkin Soup

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. Bread + pumpkintop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together63 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

2. Pumpkin + orangetop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together266 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

3. Bread + orangetop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,084 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

4. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together19,212 recipes

   Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

5. Pumpkin + sugartop 21% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together2,350 recipes

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

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 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

Swap the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, pumpkin, sugar):

1. Vanillafits better
2. Datesfits better
3. Figfits better
4. Orangethe original

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