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Cloud ear fungus + Arctic blackberry
Affinity score 83%Shared compounds 1Source: modal-canonical-v3
Cloud ear fungus
Cloud ear fungus (Auricularia polytricha, syn. Hirneola polytricha) is an edible jelly fungus. It is gray-brown in color and often used in Asian cooking.
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Arctic blackberry
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Shared flavor compounds
These compounds appear in both Cloud ear fungus and Arctic blackberry, giving them a molecular basis for flavor affinity, the pairing principle articulated by Francois Benzi and implemented in flavor-pairing research.
3-methoxy-4-hydroxy-5-all-trans-heptaprenylbenzoate
Why it works
The flavor-pairing hypothesis proposes that ingredients sharing significant aromatic compounds harmonize on the palate. Cloud ear fungus and Arctic blackberry overlap on 1 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