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Raspberry Cranberry Sauce

By aspicyperspective · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Raspberry Cranberry Sauce

Why it works: Raspberry and mint work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 180 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Raspberry Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

115Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
28 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Raspberry1 cup (123g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Peppermintnot 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 aspicyperspective. 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. Raspberry + minttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together180 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

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