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DIY Conversation Heart Candy Recipe

An easy recipe for making your own flavored candy hearts with personalized captions for Valentine's Day.

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DIY Conversation Heart Candy Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

DIY Conversation Heart Candy Recipe

About 180 conversation hearts
Cook49 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

134Calories
7 gProtein
0 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Orange Flower1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Gelatin1 envelope (7g)23
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Rosenot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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 chow. 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. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + pepperminttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Lime + pepperminttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together806 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lime + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the peppermint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, lime, gelatin, sugar, orange, rose):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Corianderfits about as well
  3. Gingerfits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, lime, gelatin, sugar, orange, rose. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.