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Triple Crunch Apple Salad

"This salad is made extra crunchy with fresh apples, celery and toasted hazelnuts."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Triple Crunch Apple Salad

Why it works: Apple and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Triple Crunch Apple Salad

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

407Calories
26 gProtein
7 gFat
66 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Toppingnot in our table0
Hazelnutnot 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. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  2. Dates + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Celery + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Apple + celerytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Apple + hazelnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, celery, orange, cream, hazelnut):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, celery, orange, cream, hazelnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.