Name: Tropical Treat
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 250g jumbo oats; 50g desiccated coconut; 25g dark muscovado sugar; 50g pumpkin seeds; 100g mixture of chopped Brazil nuts and whole raw cashews; 250g packet ready-to-eat tropical fruits; yogurt , fresh blueberries, sliced banana and honey to serve (optional)

Why it works: Coconut and brazil nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Tropical Treat

Serves 8

Cook15 min

Ingredients

250g jumbo oats
50g desiccated coconut
25g dark muscovado sugar
50g pumpkin seeds
100g mixture of chopped Brazil nuts and whole raw cashews
250g packet ready-to-eat tropical fruits
yogurt , fresh blueberries, sliced banana and honey to serve (optional)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

996Calories

33 gProtein

44 gFat

130 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 12 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Cashew	1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)	157
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Blueberry	1 cup (148g)	84
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Pumpkin	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Brazil Nut	not in our table	0
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.

Coconut + brazil nuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together25 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Coconut + bananatop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together549 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Oats + pumpkintop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together194 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Yogurt + honeytop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together660 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
Oats + coconuttop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together522 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the banana

The recipe marks banana as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, coconut, sugar, pumpkin, brazil nut, yogurt, honey):

Vanillafits better
Figfits about as well
Bananathe original
Datesfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, coconut, sugar, pumpkin, brazil nut, yogurt, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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