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Raspberry & Red Wine Slush with Peach Salad

This is the perfect light summery pudding, full of intense flavours and low in fat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Red wine and peach share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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Serves 4
Prep20 min

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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. Red wine + peachtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

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

  2. Peach + minttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Red wine + minttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Sugar + peachtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,308 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + minttop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,591 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (red wine, sugar, peach):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Clovebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against red wine, sugar, peach. 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).