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Frozen Fruit Sticks with Passion Fruit & Lime Drizzle

This fun and fruity snack is low fat and a great source of vitamin C

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

MAKES 8
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Thread the strawberry halves, grapes, mango, melon, kiwi and pineapple chunks onto 8 skewers or sticks, alternating fruits and dividing them evenly so each stick has a mix.

  2. Lay the fruit sticks on a tray lined with parchment paper, making sure they do not touch, and freeze for at least 3 hours until firm.

  3. Halve the passion fruits and scrape the pulp and seeds into a small bowl. Add the lime juice and icing sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves.

  4. Just before serving, spoon the passion fruit and lime drizzle over the frozen fruit sticks. Let them sit for 2 to 3 minutes so the drizzle loosens slightly.

By bbcgoodfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lime + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Mango + pineappletop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, sweet).

  3. Mango + passion fruittop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

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

  4. Mango + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Melon + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

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

  1. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, melon, pineapple, lime, passion fruit, sugar. 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).