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Orange Cream Drink

"This is a great easy recipe which could be a delicious refresher or a breakfast meal!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and milk powder work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep5 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 orange juice, apple juice, honey, vanilla extract, nonfat dry milk powder and sliced banana to a blender.

  2. Blend on high for about 30 seconds until smooth and no milk powder lumps remain.

  3. Add the 2 ice cubes to the blender and blend for another 15 to 20 seconds until the ice is crushed and the drink is frothy.

  4. Pour the drink 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. Orange + milk powdertop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Apple + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Apple + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

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

  5. Honey + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, honey, vanilla, milk powder, banana):

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Grapebetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, honey, vanilla, milk powder, banana. 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).