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Camp Trail Mix

"This is a great take anywhere snack. Good for camping and long car trips."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Camp Trail Mix

Why it works: Peanut and sunflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Camp Trail Mix

10 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

388Calories
13 gProtein
28 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Peanut1 oz (28g)161
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Carobnot 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. Peanut + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

  2. Carob + sunflowertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Honey + carobtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Honey + sunflowertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Honey + peanuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together420 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Flaxseedfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, carob, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.