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Watermelon Cantaloupe Berry Mint Salad with Honey Vinaigrette

Who’s looking for a healthy dessert to bring to a summer BBQ? This fruit salad would be your best choice!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and mint work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 361 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 5
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Cut the watermelon and cantaloupe into bite-sized balls or chunks, discarding any seeds and rinds, and place them in a large bowl.

  2. Whisk the lemon juice and honey together in a small bowl until the honey dissolves to make the dressing.

  3. Pour the honey lemon dressing over the melon and gently toss to coat.

  4. Add the blueberries and chopped mint leaves and fold gently so the berries stay intact.

  5. Cover the bowl and chill in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes before serving so the flavors blend.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Honey + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together361 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + honeytop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Raspberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, mint. 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).