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Lemon Mint Iced Tea

"An easy and delicious iced tea enhanced with the refreshing flavors of lemon and mint."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Lemon Mint Iced Tea

Why it works: Tea and peppermint work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 71 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Lemon Mint Iced Tea

1 quart
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

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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. Tea + pepperminttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Sugar + pepperminttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + teatop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

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

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

Swap the peppermint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

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