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Fruit Salad with Vanilla Yogurt

"This is a recipe that my aunt made for me not long ago, and you can pretty much make it your own by adding your favorite fruits or taking out what you don't like. Also changing the yogurt flavor will change the taste as well."

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Why it works: Vanilla and yogurt are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,191 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

12 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Hull and halve the strawberries. Pit and cut the peach, plums, and cherries into bite-size pieces, and halve the cherries.

  2. Peel and cut the kiwi fruit into bite-size pieces. Prepare the honeydew and cantaloupe into balls or cubes, and cut the pineapple into cubes.

  3. Rinse the grapes and halve them if desired, then add all the prepared fruit to a large bowl and gently toss to combine.

  4. Spoon the vanilla yogurt into a separate bowl and stir until smooth.

  5. Chill the fruit and yogurt in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes before serving.

  6. Serve the fruit in bowls or cups, topping each portion with a spoonful of the vanilla yogurt.

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

  1. Vanilla + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,191 recipes

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

  2. Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together161 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Melon + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Peach + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Pineapple + grapetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together704 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, plum, melon, pineapple, vanilla, yogurt):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Pearbetter flavor fit
  3. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, plum, melon, pineapple, vanilla, yogurt. 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).