Pair
Pairing
Complementary

Avocado + Mayonnaise

Avocado and mayonnaise are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.27). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Savory European-American condiments and seasonings" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withstrong signal
0.31
Tastes likemoderate signal
0.27
Blendedstrong signal
0.58
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 avocado and mayonnaise — 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.