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Blueberry-Pomegranate Smoothie

What could be better than a healthy breakfast that comes together in less than a minute? If you have fresh blueberries on hand, by all means use them, but add a few ice cubes before blending to chill the smoothie. Keep an insulated beverage container stashed in the freezer—it will come in handy if you like to take your smoothies to go.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2.

Ingredients

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

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By williamssonoma. 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 + pomegranatetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Banana + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Banana + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Honey + pomegranatetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (honey, pomegranate, yogurt):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Pearbetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, pomegranate, yogurt. 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).