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Christmas Detox Smoothie

Frozen strawberries and peaches are blended with Greek yogurt, spinach and flax to create the perfectly sweet break from all those Christmas treats.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 558 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Vanilla + peachtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together558 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Banana + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + milktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

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

  4. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Almond + flaxseedtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the flaxseed

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

  1. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  2. Hazelnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Flaxseedthe original

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