Cashew + Sunflower seed
Cashew and sunflower seed are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.30) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.38). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" 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 cashew and sunflower seed — 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 withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- Cooks withTart fruits nuts and spirits
- Cooks withHigh-protein seafood seeds and soy
- Cooks withRich confections nuts and spirits
- Cooks withSweet baking and plant-based pantry staples
- BlendedSweet-sour fruits nuts and grains
- BlendedProtein-dense seeds and nuts
- BlendedPlant-based whole food pantry staples