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Chocolate Banana Oatmeal Porridge

"'Yummy, mummy!' is something you're bound to hear when you make this delicious breakfast treat. A simple oatmeal porridge with mashed bananas and melted chocolate make it extra special! You can add raisins and 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon, depending on what your family likes."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chocolate Banana Oatmeal Porridge

Why it works: Oats and banana work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 288 recipes. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Chocolate Banana Oatmeal Porridge

2 cups
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

463Calories
8 gProtein
12 gFat
84 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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. Oats + bananatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together288 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  2. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Banana + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together574 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Oats + chocolatetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together752 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Sugar + bananatop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oats, sugar, chocolate):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Bananathe original

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