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Tasty Sweet Potatoes

"An extremely delicious, very low fat sweet potato recipe! Raisins add an extra touch of sweetness. Almost any flavor of fruit juice can be substituted for orange."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Tasty Sweet Potatoes

Why it works: Sweet potato and orange work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 191 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Tasty Sweet Potatoes

5 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

285Calories
6 gProtein
1 gFat
68 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62

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. Sweet potato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Orange + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,684 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, orange):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.