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Post Workout Chocolate Coconut Kefir Smoothie

This ultra-rich and creamy Post Workout Chocolate Coconut Kefir Smoothie is packed with the nutrients you need to recover quickly from your workout.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Kefir and banana work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Kefir + bananatop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together549 recipes

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

  3. Coconut + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  4. Coconut + kefirtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Banana + avocadotop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together40 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, kefir, banana):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Avocadothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, kefir, banana. 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).