Name: Oat Strawberry Ginger Cookies
Yield: Makes 16 cookies
Ingredients: 1,5 cups (200ml) oat flakes; app.3/4 cup whole wheat flour; 1t.s. baking powder; pinch of salt; 3 tb.s. sugar (to taste); app.130ml thick greek yoghurt; 1 cup strawberry (washed, dried and cut); thumb size ginger root, grated

Why it works: Wheat and ginger work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Oat Strawberry Ginger Cookies

Makes 16 cookies

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

709Calories

19 gProtein

4 gFat

147 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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.

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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.

Wheat + gingertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Wheat + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together69 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl isobutyrate (flower).
Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Flour + gingertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,564 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, sugar, ginger):

Raisinfits better
Vanillafits better
Blueberryfits better
Strawberrythe original

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

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