Skip to main content

Apple-Yogurt Parfaits

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Yogurt and flaxseed work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Ingredients

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

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

By epicurious. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Yogurt + flaxseedtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

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

  2. Flaxseed + agavetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Apple + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together501 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Apple + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,920 recipes

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

  5. Yogurt + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, yogurt, flaxseed, agave):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Bananabetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, yogurt, flaxseed, agave. 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).