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Cranberry Grape Salad

"Four types of fruit in a creamy salad mixture will be certain to liven up your holiday table! Green grapes may be used in place of red -- or use both!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Cranberry Grape Salad

Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Cranberry Grape Salad

8 cups
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

431Calories
5 gProtein
19 gFat
68 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Toppingnot in our table0
Mandarinnot 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.

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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. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Mandarin orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Walnut + grapetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Mandarin orange + grapetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Walnut + mandarin orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the mandarin orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Mandarin orangethe original

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