Name: Quick Porridge How-ya-like-it
Yield: Serves 1
Ingredients: This is a rough and ready breakfast treat that we love in our house. Making use of any fruit you happen to have and is less expensive than using the popular sachets of porridge from the supermarket. There is no need for sugar as the fruit will sweeten.; Ingredients; Handful of Fruit - Such as a banana, peeled apple, strawberries etc.; 30g/ (1/4 cup) - Porridge/Rolled Oats (I found a perfect scoop that I leave in the box); 125ml - Milk (your favorite)

Why it works: Banana and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 435 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Quick Porridge How-ya-like-it

Serves 1

Ingredients

This is a rough and ready breakfast treat that we love in our house. Making use of any fruit you happen to have and is less expensive than using the popular sachets of porridge from the supermarket. There is no need for sugar as the fruit will sweeten.
Ingredients
Handful of Fruit - Such as a banana, peeled apple, strawberries etc.
30g/ (1/4 cup) - Porridge/Rolled Oats (I found a perfect scoop that I leave in the box)
125ml - Milk (your favorite)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

601Calories

16 gProtein

12 gFat

116 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Apple	1 medium (182g)	95
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Strawberry	1 cup (152g)	49
Fruit	not in our table	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.

Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together435 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Banana + oatstop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together288 recipes

Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).
Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,104 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together518 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, banana, oats, milk):

Vanillafits better
Figfits about as well
Coconutfits about as well
Applethe original

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

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