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Easy Fruit Salad

Easy Fruit Salad for a Party!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and mango match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 224 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Easy Fruit Salad

Serves 75

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

387Calories
5 gProtein
2 gFat
98 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mango1 cup diced (165g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cantaloupe1 cup diced (160g)53
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Kiwi1 medium (69g)42
Fruit Saladnot in our table0
Fruitsnot 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 bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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. Pineapple + mangotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Grape + mangotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mango + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

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

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, mango, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

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