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Baked Beans with Brown Sugar & Pineapple

Sweet maple baked beans with chunks of pineapple … Perfect for your weekend barbecue!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Baked Beans with Brown Sugar & Pineapple

Why it works: Ketchup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 260 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Baked Beans with Brown Sugar & Pineapple

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

385Calories
10 gProtein
1 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Waternot 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. Ketchup + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Beans + pineappletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Sugar + maple syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,252 recipes

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

  5. Maple syrup + pineappletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ketchup, sugar, maple syrup, molasses, beans):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ketchup, sugar, maple syrup, molasses, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.