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Mixed Berry Chia Seed Syrup

This slightly-sweet syrup is great on top of pancakes but would make an awesome yogurt or ice cream topping as well. If your berries are particularly tart, try upping the maple syrup amount by a couple of tablespoons until the sweetness is to your liking.

By backtoherroots · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Mixed Berry Chia Seed Syrup

Why it works: Chia and vanilla share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mixed Berry Chia Seed Syrup

(4-6 servings)
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

64Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 4 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Chia Seednot 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 backtoherroots. 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. Chia + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Maple syrup + vanillatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together752 recipes

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

  3. Chia + maple syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

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

Swap the chia

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (maple syrup, vanilla):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Chiathe original
  3. Clovefits less well
  4. Peppermintfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against maple syrup, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.