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Three Amigos Salad

"Southwestern fruit salad. Great flavors combination and wonderful for dieters. These three fruits blend perfectly together for a special, easy to make salad. Serve with cottage cheese for a complete diet meal. Refrigerate if making ahead, keeps 2 days."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Three Amigos Salad

Why it works: Avocado and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Three Amigos Salad

2 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

402Calories
6 gProtein
23 gFat
55 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Grapefruit1/2 fruit (123g)52
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

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. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

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

  3. Grapefruit + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Avocado + grapefruittop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Avocado + mangotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the mango

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

  1. Lemonfits about as well
  2. Mangothe original
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Coconutfits about as well

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