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eggplant + Cocoa bean
Affinity score 12%Shared compounds 6Source: modal-canonical-v1
eggplant
fruit of Solanum melongena
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Cocoa bean
Fatty seed of Theobroma cacao
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both eggplant and Cocoa bean, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
(s)-nicotinedelphinidindelphinidin chloridedelphinidin(1-)l-phenylalaninephenylalanine
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. eggplant and Cocoa bean overlap on 6 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