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The Witness

"A great success at my bar! It is a classy, sweet alternative to the Cosmopolitan, while still retaining the tartness of the original. The name usually gets laughs when someone yells out: 'Can I get a witness?'"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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The Witness

Why it works: Grapefruit and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

The Witness

1 witness
Prep1 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

220Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Grapefruit1/2 fruit (123g)52
Grapefruit Juice1/2 fruit (123g)52
Cranberry1 cup raw (100g)46
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Vodkanot 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. Grapefruit + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cranberry + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Peach + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Peach + limetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Grapefruit + cranberrytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, grapefruit, cranberry, lime):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, grapefruit, cranberry, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.