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Honey-Roasted Pepitas & Sunflower Seeds

Snack on these by themselves or add them into a fun fall Chex mix! Delicious either way!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Honey-Roasted Pepitas & Sunflower Seeds

Why it works: Sunflower and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 698 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Honey-Roasted Pepitas & Sunflower Seeds

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

474Calories
8 gProtein
29 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 10 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Pepitanot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sunflower + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sunflower + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pumpkin + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Corn + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,502 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sunflower, sugar, honey, corn, syrup, olive):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sunflower, sugar, honey, corn, syrup, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.