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Trail Mix Bars

"These no-bake bars make a yummy snack that the entire family will love! If desired, you can substitute other nut butter for the peanut butter and other nuts and seeds for the sunflower seeds."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Trail Mix Bars

Why it works: Rice and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 670 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Trail Mix Bars

24 bars
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1028Calories
25 gProtein
40 gFat
146 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

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. Rice + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Rice + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

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

  3. Sunflower + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Chocolate + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Sunflower + honeytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 (rice, sunflower, chocolate, honey, sugar, peanut, butter):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sunflower, chocolate, honey, sugar, peanut, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.