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Melon-Blackberry Smoothie

"This cooling and naturally sweet smoothie makes a great snack or breakfast. Soy milk or rice milk can be substituted for the almond milk if necessary."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and melon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 41 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Peel and chop the banana if needed, and cube the honeydew melon into bite-sized pieces, discarding the seeds and rind.

  2. Add the banana, honeydew cubes, frozen blackberries, wheat germ, almond milk and ice cubes to a blender.

  3. Blend on high for 45 to 60 seconds until completely smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides once if needed.

  4. Taste and blend for 10 more seconds if you want it thinner or colder. Pour into two glasses and serve right away.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Banana + melontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Wheat + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Wheat + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  4. Banana + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,464 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Melon + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together69 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

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

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Peasbetter flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, melon, wheat, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).