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Grape Banana Salad

"This is a nice blend of fruit and nuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Grape Banana Salad

Why it works: Grape and banana work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Grape Banana Salad

8 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

244Calories
3 gProtein
9 gFat
44 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26

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. Grape + bananatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  2. Grape + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Banana + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Cream + walnuttop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Cream + bananatop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,180 recipes

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

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 (cream, grape, banana):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Hazelnutfits about as well

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