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Chia Green Beets Smoothie

This is my Monday special power-packed smoothie loaded with the goodness of chia seeds, beets, cinnamon and greens. Absolutely delish in taste and can be pre-made and stored for 2 days in the fridge.

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Why it works: Kale and chia share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep3 min
Cook2 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. If using fresh beets, peel them and chop into small pieces. Frozen beets can go in as they are.

  2. Peel and roughly chop the ginger slice. Chop the celery stalks and core and chop the apple.

  3. Add the beets, kale if using, spinach, celery, apple, ginger and chia seeds to a blender.

  4. Pour in the coconut water, or regular water if you prefer, then add the cinnamon if using.

  5. Blend on high for about 2 minutes until completely smooth. Add a splash more water to loosen if it is too thick.

  6. Pour 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. Kale + chiatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Apple + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Chia + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Kale + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kale

The recipe marks kale as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, spinach, celery, apple, cinnamon, chia, coconut):

  1. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, spinach, celery, apple, cinnamon, chia, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).