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Fig & Pomegranate Smoothie

As we approach the winter, it’s a great idea to kick start your working day with a glass full of goodness that will help keep your immune system up to the task.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pomegranate and fig share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hydroxybutan-2-one, which smells cheesy, buttery. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (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. Juice the lemon and set the juice aside, removing any seeds.

  2. Peel the banana and break it into chunks. Trim the stems off the figs and halve them.

  3. Add the almond milk, banana, figs and lemon juice to a blender.

  4. Add the pomegranate seeds, holding back a small spoonful for topping.

  5. Blend on high for about 1 minute until completely smooth. Add a splash of water if it is too thick.

  6. Pour into glasses and sprinkle the reserved pomegranate seeds on top before serving.

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. Pomegranate + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hydroxybutan-2-one (cheesy, buttery).

  2. Banana + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Almond + figtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together518 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pomegranate + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Milk + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,025 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, milk, pomegranate, banana, fig):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Apricotbetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, milk, pomegranate, banana, fig. 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).