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Passion Flower Cocktail

Passionate cocktails sure to impress your loved one this Valentine's!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and passion fruit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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Serves 2

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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. Mango + passion fruittop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

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

  2. Mango + champagnetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Passion fruit + champagnetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3 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 mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (passion fruit, champagne):

  1. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Mangothe original
  4. Raspberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against passion fruit, champagne. 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).