/ MOLECULAR PAIRING
nut + Legume
Affinity score 46%Shared compounds 6Source: modal-canonical-v3
nut
dry, edible fruit or seed which usually has a high fat content
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Legume
Plants in the family Fabaceae
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both nut and Legume, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
2-oxoglutaric acidglycine zwitterionstilbenediboronl-lysine zwitterionspermidine(3+)
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. nut and Legume 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
Machine-learned affinity
Ensemble score
68%
Model runs
2
Verdict
weak
nut and Legume were also scored by an AI model trained on measured flavor compounds. 2 independent model run(s) converged on this affinity estimate.