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Virgin Pomegranate-Lime Rickey Recipe

A classic summer cooler, a lime rickey can be mixed up with gin or bourbon or, for a virgin rickey (like this one), with fruit syrup. Either rendition is equally...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Virgin Pomegranate-Lime Rickey Recipe

Why it works: Pomegranate and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Virgin Pomegranate-Lime Rickey Recipe

5 1/4 cups
Cook1 hr 45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

132Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot 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 chow. 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. Pomegranate + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

  2. Pomegranate + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

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

  3. Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Pomegranate + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pomegranate, sugar, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Blueberryfits about as well

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