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Strawberry-Meyer Lemon-Poppy Seed Muffins

Sweet, lemony and healthy muffins that are perfect for spring!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Strawberry-Meyer Lemon-Poppy Seed Muffins

Why it works: Wheat and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Strawberry-Meyer Lemon-Poppy Seed Muffins

Serves 12
Prep15 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

852Calories
38 gProtein
20 gFat
130 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Poppy Seednot 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. Wheat + poppy seedtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Poppy seed + yogurttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + poppy seedtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, wheat, flour, poppy seed, butter, yogurt, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, wheat, flour, poppy seed, butter, yogurt, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.