Banana blossom + Vietnamese balm
Banana blossom and vietnamese balm are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.41) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East-Asian mushrooms and aromatics" 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 banana blossom and vietnamese balm — 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 withEast-Asian mushrooms and aromatics
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian tropical pantry staples
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian tropical herbs and staples
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast-Asian pungent vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian noodles and condiments
- BlendedSoutheast and East Asian hot pot ingredients
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses