Why it works: Chicory and apple work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
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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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Chicory + appletop 16% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together15 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together14,036 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Chicory + watercresstop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together40 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Mint + lemontop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,998 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Mint + parsleytop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,198 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the mint
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicory, dates, watercress, apple, parsley, lemon, olive):
- Thymebetter flavor fit
- Celerybetter flavor fit
- Corianderbetter flavor fit
- Mintthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against chicory, dates, watercress, apple, parsley, lemon, olive. 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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