Chinese yam + Kelp
Chinese yam and kelp are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.36). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian vegetables and umami 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 chinese yam and kelp — 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 umami staples
- Cooks withEast Asian hot pot ingredients
- Cooks withChinese banquet delicacies and dried seafood
- BlendedEast Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast Asian herbal vegetables and tonics
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- Tastes likeEast Asian earthy vegetables and tubers
- Tastes likeEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms