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Perfect Mint Chocolate Chip Smoothie

I have been searching for the perfect mint chocolate smoothie that is low-cal and utilizes spinach. This is it! It is great for breakfast or dessert!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Chia and avocado share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Chia + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Almond + chiatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  5. Almond + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

The recipe marks avocado as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, almond, milk, spinach, chia, vanilla, mint):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, almond, milk, spinach, chia, vanilla, 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).