Name: Mom's Banana Bread Oats
Ingredients: 1/2 a pineapple; 1/2 a honeydew melon or cantaloupe; 2 cups watermelon, cut into chunks; 1 cup seedless grapes, red or green; 1 cup strawberries, halved; 2 kiwi fruits; 1 apple; 2 oranges or tangerines; juice of one fresh lemon; Tofu Fruit Dressing; 225 grams (about 8 oz) soft unflavoured tofu; 4-6 tbsp maple syrup; 1-2 tsp vanilla; 2-3 tsp arrowroot flour or cornstarch (for thickening...but it's optional); 1/2 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Grape + appletop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,659 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Pineapple + melontop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together114 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together709 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).
Pineapple + appletop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together530 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, melon, grape, apple, orange, tofu, maple syrup):

Mangofits better
Vanillafits better
Strawberryfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, melon, grape, apple, orange, tofu, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Pineapple	1 cup chunks (165g)	82
Tofu	100g firm	76
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cantaloupe	1 cup diced (160g)	53
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Watermelon	1 cup diced (152g)	46
Kiwi	1 medium (69g)	42
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Vanilla	1 tsp extract (4ml)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Melon	not in our table	0
Fruit	not in our table	0
Tangerine	not in our table	0
Arrowroot	not in our table	0

Mom's Banana Bread Oats