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Cold Pea Salad

"Easy, quick, and tasty. Great side dish or quick lunch."

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Cold Pea Salad

Why it works: Pineapple and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 469 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Cold Pea Salad

6 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

175Calories
6 gProtein
3 gFat
37 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pineapple + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Peas + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Pecans + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Peas + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

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

  5. Peas + limetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together175 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, pineapple, lime):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, pineapple, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.