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Chocolate Beetroot Smoothie

A superfood smoothie jam packed with nutrients and oxidants made with red beets, cacao powder, cranberry kefir and more!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and kefir work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Make sure the steamed red beet and the banana are already frozen, and set out the cranberry kefir and almond milk.

  2. Add the frozen beet pieces, frozen banana, raw cacao powder, cranberry kefir and almond milk to a blender.

  3. Blend on high for 60 to 90 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides, until completely smooth and thick.

  4. If the smoothie is too thick to blend, add a splash of water and blend again briefly.

  5. Pour into a glass and serve right away while cold.

By tastykitchen. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Banana + kefirtop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Cranberry + almondtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  3. Banana + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,464 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Banana + cranberrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cranberry + milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cranberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, kefir, almond, milk):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Cranberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, kefir, almond, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).