Aloe vera + Butterfly pea flower
Aloe vera and butterfly pea flower are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.29). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Southeast Asian tropical pantry staples" mode.
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.
Ingredients that go well with both aloe vera and butterfly pea flower — 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.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian tropical pantry staples
- Cooks withSweet baking and plant-based pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedPlant-based sweeteners seeds and confections
- BlendedFloral fruit and pastry confections
- BlendedPlant-based whole food pantry staples
- BlendedTropical fruit and floral dessert beverages