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Roast Loin of Pork

Just great for a late-summer roast - get the family round the table in Sunday best style

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Roast Loin of Pork

Why it works: Pork and chicken match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,417 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Roast Loin of Pork

Serves 4
Prep30 min

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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. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Apple + flourtop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,140 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Apple + chickentop 25% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together856 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Flour + chickentop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together10,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Flour and chicken share little aroma chemistry, yet 10,559 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, flour, chicken):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, flour, chicken. 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).