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Healthy Spiced Banana Bread

This Spiced Banana Bread is not only delicious, but also healthy. It is made from simple ingredients, such as almonds and oats and spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Healthy Spiced Banana Bread

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Healthy Spiced Banana Bread

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

984Calories
30 gProtein
16 gFat
184 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Almond Milk1 cup (240ml) unsweetened30
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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.

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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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Oats + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

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

  5. Oats + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,394 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 banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dates, oats, almond, cinnamon, nutmeg, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dates, oats, almond, cinnamon, nutmeg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.