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Fresh Mango and Strawberry Popsicle

Fresh mango and strawberry popsicles.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Fresh Mango and Strawberry Popsicle

Why it works: Strawberry and mango share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Fresh Mango and Strawberry Popsicle

Serves 8
Prep4 hr
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

209Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
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. Strawberry + mangotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Lemon + mangotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Lemon + strawberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,060 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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, strawberry, mango):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, strawberry, mango. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.