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Cocoa Banana Oatmeal Bake

it's like having a chocolaty cake for breakfast or desert but do you want to know the best bit is? its healthy!

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Cocoa Banana Oatmeal Bake

Why it works: Oats and banana work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 288 recipes. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cocoa Banana Oatmeal Bake

Serves 1

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

728Calories
17 gProtein
20 gFat
126 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Syrupnot 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 + bananatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together288 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  2. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Cocoa powder + syruptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Oats + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Oats + cocoa powdertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, cocoa powder, milk, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oats, cocoa powder, milk, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.