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Bacon, Avocado & Spinach Salad

These three ingredients go together any time, but are especially good in this easy springtime salad

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 188 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. 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. Spinach + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,376 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Red wine + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Olive + spinachtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 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 mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, red wine, vinegar, spinach, avocado):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, red wine, vinegar, spinach, 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).