Exploring the Food Pairing Hypothesis in Saudi Cuisine Using Genetic Algorithm

Table 1

Notations and their description.

	Notations	Description
Real cuisine notations		Represent a recipe
	nR	The number of ingredients in recipe R
		The average flavor sharing on recipe level
		Set of flavor compounds found in ingredients i
		The average flavor sharing on cuisine level
Hypothesis notations		The average flavor sharing of real cuisine
		The average flavor sharing of random cuisine
		The difference between the flavor sharing of the real and random cuisine
Random cuisine notations		Number of all recipes in the cuisine
		Number of all ingredients
		Number of initial ingredients at time t
		Number of all recipes
		Number of all recipes at time t
	fi	Fitness value of ingredient i
	m	Number of ingredients to be mutated in each recipe.