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Very Berry Spinach Smoothie

5-minute Very Berry Spinach Smoothie! A healthy protein packed smoothie loaded with berries and spinach.

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Why it works: Spinach and soy milk work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy (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. Pour the soy milk and Greek yogurt into a blender first so the blades turn easily.

  2. Add the spinach, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and banana on top of the liquid.

  3. Blend on high for about 60 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides if needed, until mostly smooth.

  4. If you see chunks of spinach or fruit, blend for another 15 to 20 seconds until fully smooth.

  5. Pour into glasses and serve right away.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Spinach + soy milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

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

  2. Banana + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together508 recipes

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

  3. Soy milk + bananatop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

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

  4. Soy milk + yogurttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

  5. Spinach + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together356 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 banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, soy milk, yogurt):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, soy milk, yogurt. 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).