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Nutty Granola

"A very easy-to-make granola recipe that is delicious and the best snack ever. All the girls at my office eat this with yogurt every day. It's awesome! If you don't have some of the dry ingredients, just add more of what you do have. Walnuts are a fine substitute for pecans. You can also try dried blueberries instead of or with the cranberries."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Nutty Granola

Why it works: Coconut and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

Nutty Granola

20 1/4 cup servings
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1045Calories
17 gProtein
76 gFat
82 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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. Coconut + sunflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Oats + pecanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together289 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Almond + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Almond + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Pumpkin + pecanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, almond, coconut, sunflower, pecans, butter, honey):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, almond, coconut, sunflower, pecans, butter, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.