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The Best, Original Fruit Salad

"This fruit salad has people very skeptical at first, but once you try it you'll love it! This is a judgement recipe; there's no right or wrong. Add other fruits as you please, just be careful with the mayo; you want it to taste of it barely."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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The Best, Original Fruit Salad

Why it works: Banana and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 733 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The Best, Original Fruit Salad

10 servings
Prep25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

866Calories
16 gProtein
37 gFat
133 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Kiwi1 medium (69g)42
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Fruitnot in our table0
Tangerinenot 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. Banana + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Pineapple + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Pineapple + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together530 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, pineapple, apple, orange, walnut, celery, coconut):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cranberryfits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

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