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Tropical Green Smoothie

I am a huge fan of healthy green and nutrient filled smoothies. I have been doing smoothie for my 20 month old, and i usually put some kind of green in there, or an avocado or bunch of carrots and chia seeds and then some frozen fruit.  She loves them. So when i came across…

By delishhh · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 558 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

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

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By delishhh. 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. Peach + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Peach + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Banana + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, banana, peach, mango, vanilla, chia):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, banana, peach, mango, vanilla, chia. 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).