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Baby Beet Salad

"Cold and refreshing. I don't eat the onions, but their flavor infuses into the dish. Adjust orange juice and vinegar if too sweet or not sweet enough. It tastes even better the next day!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Baby Beet Salad

Why it works: Mandarin orange and orange share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Baby Beet Salad

8 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

206Calories
5 gProtein
1 gFat
48 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Mandarin Orange1 medium (131g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Beet1/2 cup (85g)35
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. 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. Mandarin orange + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Onion + apple cider vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together469 recipes

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

  3. Mandarin orange + oniontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together83 recipes

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

  4. Onion + orangetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,922 recipes

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

  5. Apple cider vinegar + orangetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mandarin orange, apple cider vinegar, orange):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mandarin orange, apple cider vinegar, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.