Pair
Pairing
Complementary

Cannellini bean + Lima bean

Cannellini bean and lima bean are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.33). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Latin American chiles and dried peppers" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withstrong signal
0.31
Tastes likemoderate signal
0.33
Blendedstrong signal
0.53
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 cannellini bean and lima bean — 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.