Name: Banana Carrot Cake Bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 15
Ingredients: ¾ cups FOR THE BREAD:; ½ cups Whole Wheat Flour; ¾ teaspoons All-purpose Flour; ¾ teaspoons Baking Soda; ¼ teaspoons Baking Powder; 1 teaspoon Salt; ¼ teaspoons Ground Cinnamon; ¼ teaspoons Ground Cloves; 1 whole Freshly Grated Nutmeg; ⅓ cups Banana, Peeled And Mashed; ½ cups Granulated Sugar; ½ cups Apple Sauce, Unsweetened; ½ cups Egg Substitute Or 2 Eggs; ½ cups Pecans, Finely Chopped; 1 cup Raisins; 4 ounces, weight Grated Carrot (for 1 Cup You'll Need About 1 Large Carrot); 3 Tablespoons FOR THE FROSTING:; 1 teaspoon Light Cream Cheese, softened; ¾ cups Butter, Softened

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Explore the science

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.

Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8,686 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Wheat + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together537 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).
Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,623 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, wheat, flour, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, sugar):

Raisinfits better
Vanillafits better
Figfits better
Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, wheat, flour, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, sugar. 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
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cream Cheese	1 oz (28g)	99
Apple Sauce	1 medium (182g)	95
Egg Substitute	1 large egg (50g)	78
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Pecan	1 half (4g)	20
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Cloves	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Banana Carrot Cake Bread