Bean sprout + Peanut
Bean sprout and peanut are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.29). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian earthy mushrooms and legumes" 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 bean sprout and peanut — 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 earthy mushrooms and legumes
- Cooks withEast Asian hot pot ingredients
- BlendedSoutheast & East Asian stir-fry ingredients
- Tastes likeEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Tastes likeAsian pungent vegetables and aromatics
- Tastes likeSoutheast Asian aromatics and chili peppers
- Tastes likeEast Asian vegetables mushrooms and aromatics
- Tastes likeEast Asian vegetables and condiments