Pair
Ingredient

Queso fresco

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

Substitutes

Out of queso fresco? Try one of these.

Corn tortilla
0.48aroma match
Manchego cheese
0.48aroma match
Cotija cheese
0.48aroma 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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Blended
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Blended
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Blended
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Blended
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Blended
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Blended
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Tastes like
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Tastes like
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Tastes like
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Tastes like
Mexican chiles and cheeses
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