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Caraway + Caraway

Affinity score 100%Shared compounds 20Source: modal-canonical-v1

Caraway (Carum carvi), also known as meridian fennel, or Persian cumin, is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe and Northern Africa. The plant is similar in appearance to other members of the carrot family, with finely divided, feathery leaves with thread-like divisions, growing on 20–30 cm stems. The main flower stem is 40–60 cm tall, with small white or pink flowers in umbels. Caraway fruits are crescent-shaped achenes, around 2 mm long, with five pale ridges.

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Caraway

Species of plant in the carrot family

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Shared flavor compounds

These compounds appear in both Caraway and Caraway, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.

(+)-1(10),4-cadinadiene(+)-7-iso-jasmonate(+)-cis-abscisic aldehyde(+)-cis-carveol(+)-dihydrocarveol(+)-lariciresinol(+)-marmesin(+)-neomenthol(+)-pinoresinol(+)-pulegone(+)-secoisolariciresinol(+)-taxifolin(+/-)-alpha-thujene(-)-3-isothujone(-)-jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine(-)-lactol(-)-lariciresinol(-)-maackiain(-)-maackiain-3-o-glucoside(-)-matairesinol

Why it works

The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Caraway and Caraway overlap on 20 key compound(s), which is why classic culinary traditions, and our deterministic matching algorithm, place them together.

Verification

Pairing computed by: pairing-compute
Methodology: deterministic compound-overlap matching (no LLM)
Compound data: PubChem CID 320761 + Wikidata
Part of: Living Gastronomic Intelligence graph

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