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Cool Cucumber Juice

This fresh and healthy juice will leave you feeling light and refreshed!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Cool Cucumber Juice

Why it works: Cucumber and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 649 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Cool Cucumber Juice

Serves 1
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

128Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
34 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cucumber + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cucumber + peartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  3. Pear + limetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.