Green lentil + Hawthorn
Green lentil is a small annual legume of the pea family and it is edible seed.Green lentils can be pale or mottled green-brown in color with a glossy exterior.They have a robust, somewhat peppery flavor.It is used chiefly in soups and stews, and the herbage is used as fodder in some places.
Crataegus commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple,May-tree,whitethorn,or hawberry, is a genus of several hundred species of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae,native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America.
Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both Green lentil and Hawthorn, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Green lentil and Hawthorn overlap on 20 key compound(s), which is why classic culinary traditions, and our deterministic matching algorithm, place them together.
- Pairing computed by: pairing-compute
- Methodology: deterministic compound-overlap matching (no LLM)
- Compound data: Wikidata + Wikidata
- Part of: Living Gastronomic Intelligence graph