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Blueberry Mango Smoothie

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By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Chia and mango work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 11 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

1 1/2 cups
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

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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. Chia + mangotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vanilla + mangotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together160 recipes

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

  3. Yogurt + mangotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together175 recipes

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

  4. Vanilla + yogurttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,191 recipes

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

  5. Chia + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chia

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

  1. Peppermintbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Mintbetter flavor fit
  4. Chiathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, yogurt, mango. 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).