Name: Chikoo [Sapodilla] - Cardamom Shake
Ingredients: 1/8 cup cold water (optional); 1 pod green cardamom seeds; ice; 1 teaspoon chia seeds; 2-3 medium size ripe chikoo; 1/4 cup low fat milk (optional)

Why it works: Cardamom and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chikoo [Sapodilla] - Cardamom Shake

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

155Calories

8 gProtein

8 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 5 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Cardamom	1 tsp ground (2g)	6
Water	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Chia Seed	not in our table	0

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

Recipe from Foodista.

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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.

Cardamom + chiatop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cardamom + milktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together535 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Chia + milktop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together49 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the chia

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cardamom, milk):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Turmericfits better
Chiathe original

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

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