Name: Healthy Coconut Banana Nut Muffins
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 17 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 1-¾ cup All-purpose Flour; 1 teaspoon Baking Powder; 1-¼ teaspoon Baking Soda; 3 whole Large Ripe Bananas; ½ cups Light Brown Sugar; 1-½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract; 3 whole Egg Whites; 1-½ Tablespoon Coconut Oil, Melted; ¼ cups Fat Free Plain Greek Yogurt, You Could Also Use Vanilla Greek Yogurt; ¼ cups Orange Juice; 1 Tablespoon Skim Or Almond Milk; ½ cups Shredded Coconut; ½ cups Chopped Walnuts

Why it works: Banana and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,430 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

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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.

Banana + vanillatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,430 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,294 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Banana + coconuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together549 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Vanilla + orangetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,371 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,118 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, banana, sugar, vanilla, egg, coconut, yogurt):

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Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, banana, sugar, vanilla, egg, coconut, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Almond Milk	1 cup (240ml) unsweetened	30
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12

Healthy Coconut Banana Nut Muffins