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Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Oatmeal

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Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Oatmeal

Why it works: Oats and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,394 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Oatmeal

1 serving
Prep4 min
Cook6 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

652Calories
29 gProtein
34 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Flax Seed1 tbsp (10g) ground55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

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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. Oats + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Oats + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together368 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, egg, butter, sugar, cinnamon, milk):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Flaxseedfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, egg, butter, sugar, cinnamon, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.