Carob + Lecithin
Carob and lecithin are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.24). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Sweet baking and plant-based pantry staples" 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 carob and lecithin — 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 baking and plant-based pantry staples
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian floral confectionery ingredients
- BlendedSweet baking and confectionery ingredients
- BlendedPlant-based whole food pantry staples
- BlendedEast-Asian roots mushrooms and aromatic spices
- BlendedSpecialty health-food pantry ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeBaking pantry leaveners and flours