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Chocolate-Banana Tofu Pudding

"This delightful, guilt-free dessert can be whipped together in just 5 minutes. It's suitable for everyone, vegans and chocoholics alike! The banana and chocolate completely mask the tofu taste, no one will guess your secret!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Chocolate-Banana Tofu Pudding

Why it works: Tofu and soy milk share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 47 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chocolate-Banana Tofu Pudding

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

540Calories
19 gProtein
22 gFat
73 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Soy Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Tofu100g firm76
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Tofu + soy milktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Soy milk + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together60 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Banana + cinnamontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Cocoa powder + cinnamontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (tofu, sugar, cocoa powder, soy milk, cinnamon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, sugar, cocoa powder, soy milk, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.