Bell pepper + Neufchatel cheese
Bell pepper and neufchatel cheese 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 "Bitter Mediterranean herbs and pungent spices" 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 bell pepper and neufchatel cheese — 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 withBitter Mediterranean herbs and pungent spices
- Cooks withSavory cheeses and umami aromatics
- Cooks withLatin American pantry staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedSouthern and Creole everyday cooking staples
- Tastes likeMediterranean cheeses and peppers
- Tastes likeMediterranean cheeses and savory umami staples
- Tastes likeAmerican comfort food condiments and seasonings