Name: Blood Oranges with Pomegranate Seeds Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 8 large blood oranges, peeled and sliced into thin rounds; 5 Agave syrup; tbsp pomegranate seeds; 3 ground cinnamon; tbsp fine sea salt; 0.5 large Medjool dates, pitted, chopped; tsp flaked almonds; 0.25 bunch fresh mint, to garnish

Why it works: Pomegranate and cinnamon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Blood Oranges with Pomegranate Seeds Recipe

4 people

Prep10 min

Ingredients

8 large blood oranges, peeled and sliced into thin rounds
5 Agave syrup
tbsp pomegranate seeds
3 ground cinnamon
tbsp fine sea salt
0.5 large Medjool dates, pitted, chopped
tsp flaked almonds
0.25 bunch fresh mint, to garnish

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

234Calories

4 gProtein

2 gFat

57 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pomegranate	1/2 cup seeds (87g)	72
Date	1 date (24g) medjool	66
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Agave	1 tsp (7g)	21
Almond	1 almond (1.2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Syrup	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By lovefood. 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.

Pomegranate + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together94 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Agave + almondtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together198 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Agave + pomegranatetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together12 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Agave + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together130 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,514 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, agave, syrup, pomegranate, cinnamon, almond, mint):

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Fit is the average pairing score against orange, agave, syrup, pomegranate, cinnamon, almond, mint. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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