Apricot + Candied fruit
Apricot and candied fruit are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Sweet confections and sugary fruits" 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 apricot and candied fruit — 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 withSweet confections and sugary fruits
- Cooks withSweet-tart fresh and dried fruits
- Cooks withSweet dessert and confection ingredients
- BlendedSweet confections and sugary fruits
- BlendedFresh and preserved whole fruits
- BlendedSweet baking and confectionery ingredients
- Tastes likeFresh whole fruits and berries
- Tastes likeFruited baking and spiced confection ingredients