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Hot Passion Pina Coladas

A quick and easy way to turn a tub of ice cream into an indulgent treat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

  1. Rum + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Pineapple + rumtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Pineapple + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together651 recipes

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

  4. Rum + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together259 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + passion fruittop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, sugar, rum, cream, passion fruit):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, sugar, rum, cream, passion fruit. 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).