Pair
Ingredient

Brown sugar

Three views of what brown sugar relates to — by recipe co-occurrence, blended, and aroma chemistry. Scores are cosine similarities in 300-D Metapath2Vec space.

Substitutes

Out of brown sugar? Try one of these.

Baking soda
0.57aroma match
Maple syrup
0.52aroma match
Corn syrup
0.50aroma match

Ranked by aroma-compound similarity from FlavorDB. See the full list →

Relations

Cooks with

Recipe co-occurrence

Things this is cooked with in real recipes — strongest cue for partners on the plate.

Blended

Chemistry + recipe context

Similar in both chemistry and recipe use — the most versatile lens.

Flavor modes

Clusters of ingredients that group together in each embedding. Click through to see everything in a mode.

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