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Berry-nana Soy Smoothie

"Start your morning right with a delicious, protein-packed fruit smoothie. Add your favorite seasonal fruits for tasty variations!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Berry and honey work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings
Prep3 min

Ingredients

Contains: soy (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. Add the vanilla soymilk, frozen blueberries or frozen berry mix, sliced banana, soy protein powder and ice cubes to a blender.

  2. If you like it sweeter, add the honey (optional) to the blender.

  3. Blend on high for about 60 seconds, until completely smooth and no ice pieces remain.

  4. Stop the blender, scrape down the sides if needed, then blend for 10 more seconds.

  5. Pour the smoothie into two glasses and serve right away.

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. Berry + honeytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Vanilla + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Vanilla + berrytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Banana + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Vanilla + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,262 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, berry, honey):

  1. Blueberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, berry, honey. 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).