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Don't Knock It Until You Try It Zucchini Chocolate Banana Nut Milkshake

"I discovered 2 giant zucchini in my garden. I decided to turn this treasure into a challenge and made a whole meal in which each course or dish featured zucchini in some way. This delicious concoction was what I came up with for dessert. The kids raved about it and asked for seconds."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Don't Knock It Until You Try It Zucchini Chocolate Banana Nut Milkshake

Why it works: Banana and peanut work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 308 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Don't Knock It Until You Try It Zucchini Chocolate Banana Nut Milkshake

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

537Calories
11 gProtein
29 gFat
65 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16

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

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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. Banana + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cocoa powder + peanuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Cocoa powder + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Banana + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Banana + cocoa powdertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cocoa powder, peanut, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Bananathe original
  4. Avocadofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cocoa powder, peanut, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.