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Tropical Punch Cocktail

"This is my go-to cocktail recipe, ready in just a few minutes! Feel free to experiment with the flavors. You can use vodka or coconut rum or you can add peach schnapps; it is entirely up to your tastes."

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Tropical Punch Cocktail

Why it works: Mango and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 506 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Tropical Punch Cocktail

1 serving
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

154Calories
2 gProtein
2 gFat
30 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
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Rum1/2 oz (15ml)32
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Passion Fruit Juicenot in our table0
Syrupnot 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. Mango + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

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

  2. Passion fruit + mangotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Rum + mangotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Lime + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

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

  5. Rum + nutmegtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

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

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

Swap the passion fruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, mango, lime, syrup, nutmeg):

  1. Pineapplefits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Passion fruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, mango, lime, syrup, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.