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Lemonade-Mint Iced Tea

"A refreshing and easy to prepare iced tea. You can vary the amounts of mint and sugar depending on your tastes."

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Lemonade-Mint Iced Tea

Why it works: Mint and tea work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 71 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lemonade-Mint Iced Tea

3 quarts
Prep25 min

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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. Mint + teatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

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

  2. Tea + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

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

  3. Mint + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the mint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Mintthe original

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