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Berry Smoothie Bowl

Berry smoothie bowl made with coconut water and yogurt and topped off with granola, bananas, blueberries, and a drizzle of honey.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and banana match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 549 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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

  1. Add the frozen mixed berries, coconut water, Greek yogurt and agave syrup to a blender.

  2. Blend on high until thick and smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides as needed. Add a splash of coconut water only if it will not blend.

  3. Divide the smoothie between two bowls.

  4. Arrange the sliced bananas over the smoothie in each bowl.

  5. Scatter the fresh blueberries and granola over the top 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. Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Coconut + agavetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Yogurt + bananatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together508 recipes

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

  4. Yogurt + agavetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Coconut + yogurttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, yogurt, agave, syrup):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Bananathe original
  4. Blueberryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, yogurt, agave, syrup. 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).