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Easy Cranberry Granola

"This easy and delicious granola is better than store bought, and the cranberries add a sweet surprise."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Easy Cranberry Granola

Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Easy Cranberry Granola

1.5 quarts
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

450Calories
7 gProtein
20 gFat
64 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Wheatnot 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. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Walnut + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Wheat + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, wheat, almond, honey, vanilla, cinnamon):

  1. Flaxseedfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, wheat, almond, honey, vanilla, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.