Skip to main content

Colorful Mango Salad

"A fresh, colorful, crunchy, and healthy salad that's a big hit at any potluck or for meals at home. People can't believe how easy and tasty it is! And so pretty!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Colorful Mango Salad

Why it works: Jicama and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Colorful Mango Salad

24 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

172Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
41 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Jicama1 cup (120g)46
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

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.

Explore the science

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. Jicama + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Mango + jicamatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mango + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 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 mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, jicama, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangothe original
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Orangefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, jicama, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.