/ MOLECULAR PAIRING
Mikan + curry powder
Affinity score 96%Shared compounds 20Source: modal-canonical-v3
Mikan
A Mikan is a citrus fruit, also variously called Citrus unshiu, unshu mikan, Wenzhou migan, or a satsuma.
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curry powder
spice mix
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both Mikan and curry powder, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(9z,12z,15z)/20:0)cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(9z,12z,15z)/18:3(9z,12z,15z))cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/22:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/22:0)cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/20:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/20:1(11z))cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/20:0)cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(9z,12z,15z))cl(16:0/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z)/18:3(6z,9z,12z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/22:1(13z)/22:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/22:0/22:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/22:0/22:0)cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(13z)/22:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(13z)/22:0)cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(13z)/20:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(11z)/22:1(13z))cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(11z)/22:0)cl(16:0/18:2(9z,12z)/20:1(11z)/20:1(13z))
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Mikan and curry powder 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: Wikidata + Wikidata
- Part of: Living Gastronomic Intelligence graph