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Ponche De Frutas

"This Mexican punch is quite flavorful. With or without the fruit floating in your glass, it makes for a nice beverage."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Ponche De Frutas

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Ponche De Frutas

20 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

297Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
77 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Green Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Teanot 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Plum + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

  3. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Grape + plumtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, grape, plum, pineapple, sugar, black tea):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, grape, plum, pineapple, sugar, black tea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.