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Crunchy Fruit & Nut Cereal

Start the day with a filling and healthy mix of puffed rice, oats, fruit and nuts

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Crunchy Fruit & Nut Cereal

Why it works: Oats and mixed nuts share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crunchy Fruit & Nut Cereal

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

609Calories
35 gProtein
12 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Skimmed Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Mixed Nutsnot in our table0
Fruitsnot in our table0

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.

  1. Oats + mixed nutstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mixed nuts + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Oats + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Oats + yogurttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Rice + yogurttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together610 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mixed nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, rice, yogurt):

  1. Flaxseedfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Mixed nutsthe original

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