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Mixed Berry Smoothies

"Frozen fruit, low-fat vanilla yogurt and V8 V-Fusion® Açai Mixed Berry juice are blended together to create a nutritious and delicious smoothie. Great any time of day, each serving of this smoothie provides 1/2 serving of vegetables and 1 1/2 servings of fruit and is an excellent source of calcium and vitamin C.*"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Berry and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Add the V8 V-Fusion Acai Mixed Berry Juice, the vanilla low-fat yogurt and the frozen blueberries to a blender.

  2. Blend on high for about 60 seconds until smooth and no large ice or fruit pieces remain.

  3. Stop the blender, check the texture, and blend a few more seconds if it is still chunky.

  4. Divide the smoothie between two glasses and serve right away while it is cold and thick.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Berry + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Berry + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Vanilla + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (berry, yogurt):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against berry, yogurt. 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).