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Banana Yogurt Muffins

"Ilderton pullet farmers Bill and Cindy Gysbers and their family love these muffins as they are full of nutritious ingredients."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Yogurt and nuts work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 81 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

12 muffins
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners or grease the cups.

  2. Mash the bananas in a large bowl. Stir in the bran cereal and plain yogurt, then let stand 5 minutes so the cereal softens.

  3. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in a separate bowl.

  4. In a third bowl, beat the eggs, brown sugar and cooking oil together until smooth.

  5. Stir the egg mixture into the banana mixture. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until combined, then fold in the chopped nuts and/or raisins.

  6. Divide the batter among the muffin cups, filling each about two-thirds full.

  7. Bake 18 to 20 minutes, until the tops spring back and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean and the eggs are fully set.

  8. Cool the muffins in the pan for 5 minutes, then move them to a wire rack to cool completely.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Yogurt + nutstop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Banana + yogurttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Yogurt + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,626 recipes

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

  5. Flour + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,167 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg share little aroma chemistry, yet 104,138 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (banana, yogurt, flour, egg, sugar):

  1. Almondbetter flavor fit
  2. Pecansbetter flavor fit
  3. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, yogurt, flour, egg, sugar. 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).