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Dock + Sapodilla

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

The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Sapodilla

Sapodilla Cayes is an uninhabited atoll in the Gulf of Honduras. It is generally considered to be within the territorial waters of Belize, but Guatemala claims that the Belize–Guatemala maritime boundary is northwest of Sapodilla. Honduras also lays claims to Sapodilla Caye in its 1982 constitution.

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Shared flavor compounds

These compounds appear in both Dock and Sapodilla, 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(+)-lariciresinol(+)-marmesin(+)-neomenthol(+)-pinoresinol(+)-pulegone(+)-secoisolariciresinol(+)-taxifolin(-)-jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine(-)-lactol(-)-lariciresinol(-)-maackiain(-)-maackiain-3-o-glucoside(-)-matairesinol(-)-medicarpin(-)-medicarpin-3-o-glucoside(-)-menthone(-)-phaseollidin

Why it works

The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Dock and Sapodilla 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

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