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Blueberry Banana Pie

"A no-bake cream cheese pie with sliced bananas, topped with blueberry pie filling and whipped cream."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Blueberry Banana Pie

Why it works: Banana and blueberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Blueberry Banana Pie

8 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

388Calories
4 gProtein
16 gFat
63 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Blueberry1 cup (148g)84
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Pie Fillingnot in our table0
Pienot 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 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. Banana + blueberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + bananatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Cream cheese + blueberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Swap the blueberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, sugar, banana, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Blueberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar, banana, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.