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Fresh Fruit Salad Pie

"An apple, banana and pineapple fruit salad in a pie. This pie always gets eaten. It's easy to make and looks wonderful!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Fresh Fruit Salad Pie

Why it works: Banana and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Fresh Fruit Salad Pie

1 - 9 inch pie
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1048Calories
19 gProtein
24 gFat
196 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Fruitnot in our table0
Toppingnot 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.

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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 + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Apple + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

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

  3. Apple + pineappletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Banana + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together211 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, apple, banana, pineapple):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

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