Chinese yam + Hyacinth bean
Chinese yam and hyacinth bean are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.55) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East Asian vegetables and aromatics" 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 chinese yam and hyacinth 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.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withEast Asian vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withEast-Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian vegetables and umami staples
- Cooks withAsian whole grains seeds and fruits
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mild sweet botanicals
- BlendedEast Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast Asian herbal vegetables and tonics
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and starchy seeds