Walking under the foodpairing trees

Last saturday I joined a group of friends in a place in which there was a show in which you had to answer to some questions about several topics, from literature to science. During the game there was this question: how does it taste an high concentrated solution of saccharin? First of all, remembering saccharin is an artificial sweetener, the answer came out of my mind was "exteremely sweet", but the right one was: bitter. By searching how this molecule could work and give different senses by changing only concentration of it, I found the mechanism is not yet really well explained. Anyway, reading and reading, searching and searching about chemistry of senses, I arrived under the foodpairing tree and it was a great emotion!
Foodpairing bases on the fact the food combine well when they have most of the flavor compounds in common. There is a website in which it is possible to find these foodpairing trees in which are amazing combinations between really different or distant food. A food product has a distinctive flavor because of a specific combination of different flavor compounds. In this way it is possible to build up the flavor of any food, by combining different food. You can have a look at this website to find beautiful combinations: Foodpairing
Happy food to everyone!