Why it works: Wasabi and pepper work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
8-10 servingIngredients
Contains: soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
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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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Wasabi + peppertop 12% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together73 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Wasabi + misotop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together8 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Sauce + misotop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together37 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Pineapple + peppertop 7% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together532 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
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Pineapple + sugartop 10% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together4,839 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the pineapple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wasabi, sauce, miso, sugar, pepper):
- Avocadobetter flavor fit
- Limebetter flavor fit
- Lemonbetter flavor fit
- Pineapplethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against wasabi, sauce, miso, sugar, pepper. 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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