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Citrus-Scented Seeded Muffins

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 24 mini muffins

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By epicurious. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Avocado + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Flour + semolinatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together310 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + chiatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, semolina, rice, syrup, lemon, orange):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, semolina, rice, syrup, lemon, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).