Chestnut + Longan
Chestnut and longan are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.52) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East-Asian sweet dessert ingredients" 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 chestnut and longan — 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 sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and seeds
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeEast-Asian sweet grains and tropical seeds
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeEast Asian tonic herbs and grains