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Olive oil + Coconut oil, fortified with vitamin A, 600â1000 mcg/100g (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone)
Affinity score 40%Shared compounds 20Source: modal-canonical-v1
Olive oil
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Coconut oil, fortified with vitamin A, 600â1000 mcg/100g (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone)
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both Olive oil and Coconut oil, fortified with vitamin A, 600â1000 mcg/100g (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone), giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
alcoholalpha-linolenic acidalpha-tocopherolalpha-tocotrienolbeta-tocotrienoldelta-tocopheroldelta-tocotrienoldodecanoic acidethanolfatty acidfatty acids, total trans-monoenoicgamma-tocopherolgamma-tocotrienolhexadecanoic acidleu-alalinoleic acidlipidmenaquinonemonounsaturated fatty acidmufa 14:1 c
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Olive oil and Coconut oil, fortified with vitamin A, 600â1000 mcg/100g (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) 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