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Whole Wheat Banana Nut {Mini} Doughnuts

One of my favorite flavors crammed into a mini doughnut.

By naturallyella · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Whole Wheat Banana Nut {Mini} Doughnuts

Why it works: Wheat and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Whole Wheat Banana Nut {Mini} Doughnuts

1½ dozen
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

940Calories
30 gProtein
20 gFat
164 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0
Pastrynot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Toppingnot in our table0

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

By naturallyella. 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. Wheat + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Pecans + sunflowertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  4. Pecans + maple syruptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together274 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 (wheat, flour, pecans, milk, sunflower, egg, maple syrup):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, pecans, milk, sunflower, egg, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.