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Campbell's® Healthy Request® Chicken and Pasta Primavera

"Cheesy broccoli sauce, tender egg noodles and chicken are stirred together for a delicious, one-dish supper."

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Campbell's® Healthy Request® Chicken and Pasta Primavera

Why it works: Broccoli and cauliflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 127 recipes mention both. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Campbell's® Healthy Request® Chicken and Pasta Primavera

4 servings
Cook20 min

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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. Broccoli + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Garlic + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Broccoli + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Garlic + cauliflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, mushroom, milk, parmesan cheese, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower):

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, mushroom, milk, parmesan cheese, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower. 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).