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Snacking with Ritz

By pickypalate · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Snacking with Ritz

Why it works: Sauce and spread share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Snacking with Ritz

Each recipe makes 4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

560Calories
16 gProtein
29 gFat
65 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 11 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Pizzanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Hazelnutnot in our table0
Spreadnot in our table0
Marshmallownot in our table0
Wheatnot 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 pickypalate. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Sauce + spreadtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Hazelnut + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, earthy).

  5. Chocolate + hazelnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together350 recipes

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

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

Swap the hazelnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mozzarella cheese, sauce, chocolate, spread, wheat, peanut, butter):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Hazelnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mozzarella cheese, sauce, chocolate, spread, wheat, peanut, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.