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Apple and Blueberry Power Smoothie

A super food smoothie packed with apple and blueberry along with spinach and a little flax. Energy boosting and filling, this is the perfect smoothie to start your day off right!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 501 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. 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. Wash the apple, remove the core and seeds, and chop the flesh into small pieces.

  2. Rinse the spinach and blueberries and pat them dry.

  3. Add the apple, spinach, blueberries, Greek yogurt, water and flax seeds to a blender.

  4. Blend on high for about 60 seconds, stopping to scrape down the sides, until completely smooth.

  5. If the smoothie is too thick, blend in a splash of water until it reaches your preferred consistency.

  6. 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. Apple + yogurttop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together501 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Spinach + yogurttop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together356 recipes

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

  3. Apple + spinachtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, 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 (apple, yogurt):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, 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).