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Cranberry & Pear Smoothie

Super flavorful smoothie and easy to make!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the diced pears, cranberry juice and canned whole cranberry sauce into a blender.

  2. Blend on high for about 1 minute until completely smooth.

  3. Add the tonic water and pulse just 2 or 3 times to combine without losing the fizz.

  4. Pour the smoothie into two glasses and serve right away.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cranberry + peartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Cranberry + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + peartop 22% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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