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Low Sugar Shirley Temples

Typically a Shirley Temple drink can have as much as 45-55 grams of sugar according to the My Fitness Pal site. This one has only 10! Happy dance, right?

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Low Sugar Shirley Temples

Why it works: Pomegranate 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 90 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Low Sugar Shirley Temples

Serves 4
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

219Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
55 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot in our table0
Berrynot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pomegranate + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

  2. Pomegranate + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Lime + cherrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together301 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cherry + berrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Lime + berrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the berry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, lime, cherry, sugar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Berrythe original

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