Barberry + Cornelian cherry
Barberry and cornelian cherry are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "Sweet fruits, liqueurs and dessert flavors" 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 barberry and cornelian cherry — 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 fruits, liqueurs and dessert flavors
- Cooks withMediterranean vinegars and peppery aromatics
- Cooks withSweet-tart fresh and dried fruits
- BlendedFresh and preserved whole fruits
- Tastes likeMediterranean salad and grain pantry
- Tastes likeFruity sweet liqueurs and stone fruits
- Tastes likeFresh whole fruits and berries
- Tastes likeCaucasian and Eastern Mediterranean pantry staples