Why it works: Coconut and mint work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 163 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 1Ingredients
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.
Chill the coconut milk and double cream in the fridge for 20 minutes until cold.
Squeeze the juice from both limes and the orange into a small bowl, discarding any seeds.
Put the chopped fresh mint, honey, lime juice and orange juice into a blender, then add the coconut milk and double cream.
Add the handful of ice and blend on high for about 1 minute until smooth and frosty.
Taste the smoothie and, if you want it sweeter, blend in a little more honey for a few seconds.
Pour into a glass, garnish with the mint sprig and serve immediately.
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.
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Coconut + minttop 9% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together163 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).
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Mint + limetop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together846 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Lime + orangetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together937 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Coconut + limetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together936 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Mint + orangetop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together548 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the orange
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (coconut, milk, mint, lime, cream, honey):
- Mangobetter flavor fit
- Pineapplebetter flavor fit
- Strawberrybetter flavor fit
- Orangethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against coconut, milk, mint, lime, cream, honey. 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).
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