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Creamy Apple Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal

"This creamy oatmeal is perfect for those cozy winter mornings with a good cup of coffee. Or serve it to your kids with some hot chocolate. Not too sweet, not too bland, and it has fresh fruit!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Creamy Apple Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal

Why it works: Cinnamon and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,390 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Creamy Apple Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal

2 servings
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

418Calories
7 gProtein
3 gFat
96 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cinnamon + oatstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Maple syrup + oatstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together298 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cinnamon, maple syrup, oats, apple):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cinnamon, maple syrup, oats, apple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.