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Banana Salad with a Kick

As easy to make as it is light - with a little basil boost.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and pomegranate share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 14 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

Contains: milk, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

  • For the fruit salad
  • For the sauce

Directions

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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. Banana + pomegranatetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Pistachio + pomegranatetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pomegranate + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Pistachio + nutstop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  5. Spinach + pomegranatetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, banana, pistachio, pumpkin, pomegranate, basil, orange):

  1. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  2. Almondbetter flavor fit
  3. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, banana, pistachio, pumpkin, pomegranate, basil, orange. 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).