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Trail Mix Granola Bars

No baking required! Scrumptious homemade granola bars made right at home. A fast, easy and quick fix for breakfast and snack time, these granola bars will leave your mouth and stomach happy. Substitute your favorite ingredients and make a variety of flavors. Try almonds and dried berries, or white chocolate chips, walnuts and dried apples, the combinations are endless.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Trail Mix Granola Bars

Why it works: Rice and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 670 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Trail Mix Granola Bars

Serves 24
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

889Calories
21 gProtein
26 gFat
149 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Fruitnot 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. Rice + peanuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Chocolate + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Oats + peanuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together368 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Oats + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Oats + honeytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, rice, chocolate, peanut, honey, butter):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, rice, chocolate, peanut, honey, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.