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Bananas with Mango & Passion Fruit Caramel

A wonderfully sweet, refreshing and low fat treat

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Passion fruit and lime work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

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Serves 4

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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. Passion fruit + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Passion fruit + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together42 recipes

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

  3. Mango + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Orange + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together212 recipes

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

  5. Orange + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar, passion fruit, mango, banana):

  1. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sugar, passion fruit, mango, banana. 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).