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Mango Topping

"Very rich in flavor. Good with ice cream. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Mango Topping

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Mango Topping

3 cups
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

324Calories
3 gProtein
12 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Waternot 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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Mango + orangetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

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

  3. Mango + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Mango + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together283 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

Swap the mango

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blackberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

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