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Papaya Surprise Smoothie

"Papaya's sunny flavor is a great addition to banana and strawberry, the traditional smoothie favorites."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Papaya and banana share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. 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. Place the papaya, banana, strawberries, milk, sugar and ice cubes into a blender.

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

  3. Taste and blend briefly again if you want it sweeter or thinner, then 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. Papaya + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Papaya + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Milk + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together77,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Banana + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Milk and sugar share little aroma chemistry, yet 77,855 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (papaya, milk, sugar):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against papaya, milk, sugar. 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).