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Touchdown Trail Mix!

Easy, delicious, healthy and sugar-free!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Touchdown Trail Mix!

Why it works: Sunflower and peanut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Touchdown Trail Mix!

Serves 10
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

388Calories
13 gProtein
28 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot 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. Sunflower + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Pumpkin + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Pumpkin + peanuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

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

  4. Peanut + raisintop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pumpkin + raisintop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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 (pumpkin, sunflower, peanut):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pumpkin, sunflower, peanut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.