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Pico de gallo

Name: Pico de gallo
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 4 tomatoes tomato, seeded and diced; 1/2 onion white onions, finely diced; 1 jalapeño jalapeño, seeded and minced; a large handful fresh cilantro, chopped; 2 limes lime, juiced; 1/2 tsp salt

Chopped tomato, onion, chilli, lime and coriander. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and one of the highest scores on this entire site — it is essentially vegetables and citrus, and it makes everything it touches taste like more.

Time: 15 min (15 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 25 kcal
Protein: 1 g

Ingredients

4 tomatoes tomato, seeded and diced500 g
1/2 onion white onions, finely diced100 g
1 jalapeño jalapeño, seeded and minced30 g
a large handful fresh cilantro, chopped15 g
2 limes lime, juiced40 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g

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Steps

Seed the tomatoes — the jelly is what makes pico watery an hour later.
Dice everything small and roughly the same size so each spoonful gets all of it.
Toss with the lime juice and salt and leave 10 minutes for the onion to soften and the salt to draw the flavours together.
Best within a few hours. Drain off any liquid that collects before serving.

Why this score

a satiety booster

Exceptional fullness per calorie — but at only 21 kcal per 100 g, it can't fill you up on its own. Its power is making a meal bigger and more filling at almost no calorie cost; pair it with protein.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

14% of kcal

94% water

63 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 148 kcal goes into the pot, 688 g of ingredients comes out as ~688 g of food → 21 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 21
Protein: (14%); 1 g
Fat: (7%); <1 g
Carbohydrates: (79%); 5 g
of which sugar: 3 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 174 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.