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By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Brandy and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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By chow. 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. Brandy + passion fruittop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + rumtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Rum + brandytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,058 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Lime + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, orange, rum, apricot, brandy, passion fruit, syrup):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, orange, rum, apricot, brandy, passion fruit, syrup. 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).