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Strawberry Blueberry Smoothies

"A delicious start to your day. If I have extra I freeze it in ice cube trays so later I can just blend the cubes, so much better than wasting leftovers. My 2-year-old daughter loves it too!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and agave match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 198 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

1 smoothie
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (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 almond milk, low-fat plain yogurt, flax seed oil and agave nectar to a blender.

  2. Add the frozen strawberries and frozen blueberries on top of the liquids.

  3. Blend on high for about 1 minute until smooth and no frozen pieces remain, stopping to scrape down the sides if needed.

  4. Pour into a glass 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. Almond + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together198 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Milk + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,358 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Yogurt + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Almond + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Almond + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together683 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

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

  1. Chickpeaabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Flaxseedabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cashew nutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, yogurt, agave. 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).