Pair
Pairing
Substitute candidate

Aloe vera + Basil seed

Aloe vera and basil seed are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.44) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes.

Pairing scores
Cooks withmoderate signal
0.28
Tastes likestrong signal
0.44
Blendedstrong signal
0.62
What do these scores mean?

Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both aloe vera and basil seed — candidates for completing the dish.

How this is ranked

Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.