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Creamy Banana Green Smoothie

Refreshing “lazy day” summer smoothie.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and banana work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 29 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

  1. Remove the stalks from the kale or spinach leaves. Peel and pit the avocado, and peel the banana and keep it frozen until blending.

  2. Pour the coconut water or almond milk into a blender first, then add the kale or spinach leaves.

  3. Add the avocado, the frozen banana, and the ground flax seeds to the blender.

  4. Blend on high for about 60 seconds, stopping once to scrape down the sides, until completely smooth and creamy.

  5. Pour into a glass and drink right away.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Kale + bananatop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

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

  3. Kale + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coconut + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Coconut + kaletop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, avocado, banana):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, avocado, banana. 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).