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Orange & Mint Salad

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By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Orange & Mint Salad

Why it works: Orange and mint work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 549 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Orange & Mint Salad

Serves 4
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

128Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
33 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 5 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Peppermintnot in our table0
Rosenot in our table0
Syrupnot 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.

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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. Orange + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together549 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Orange + rosetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 recipes

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

  3. Orange + datestop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Mint + rosetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Dates + minttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, mint, rose):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, mint, rose. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.