Why it works: Avocado and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Avocado + cherry tomatotop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together9 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Rye + avocadotop 16% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Rye + cherry tomatotop 29% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together0 recipes
Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, avocado):
- Limebetter flavor fit
- Cherrybetter flavor fit
- Pumpkinbetter flavor fit
- Cherry tomatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against rye, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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