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Superfood Smoothie

Packed with tons of antioxidants and essential vitamins and minerals, this smoothie will keep your body healthy and strong.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,430 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, 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. Peel the banana and pour the unsweetened almond milk into a blender first so the blades turn easily.

  2. Add the nonfat Greek yogurt, peeled banana, fresh spinach, blueberries, cacao, chia seed, vanilla protein powder, stevia, and ice cubes to the blender.

  3. Secure the lid and blend on high for 45 to 60 seconds, until completely smooth with no spinach flecks.

  4. Taste and blend for 10 more seconds if you want it sweeter or thinner, then pour into a glass 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. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Chia + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  4. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (yogurt, banana, chia, almond, milk, vanilla):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Arrowrootbetter flavor fit
  3. Sweet potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against yogurt, banana, chia, almond, milk, vanilla. 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).