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Antioxidant Blast Super Smoothie

Try this delicious recipe containing the powerful super-fruit acai berry. This tasty smoothie will give you a powerful antioxidant boost!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Peel the bananas and break them into rough chunks.

  2. Add the fresh blueberries, banana chunks, acai berry juice, coconut water, water and pomegranate juice to a blender.

  3. Blend on high for about 45 seconds to 1 minute, until completely smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides if needed.

  4. Check the consistency, blend briefly again if you want it thinner, then pour into a glass and serve right away.

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. Coconut + pomegranatetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

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

  3. Banana + berrytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Banana + pomegranatetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  5. Berry + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pomegranate

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, berry, coconut):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  3. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Pomegranatethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, berry, coconut. 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).