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Lime Pear Gelatin Salad

"Great and green, this light gelatin salad made with pears and reduced fat cream cheese and whipped topping is a staple at any holiday meal in our family."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Lime Pear Gelatin Salad

Why it works: Lime and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Lime Pear Gelatin Salad

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

211Calories
3 gProtein
10 gFat
32 gCarbs

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

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot 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.

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. Lime + peartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Sugar + peartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Pear + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Lime + cream cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Sugar + cream cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,791 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 lime

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Limethe original

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