Cinnamon + Clove

Cinnamon and clove pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "Fruit-forward spirits and sweet berries" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withstrong signal

0.43

Tastes likestrong signal

0.47

Blendedstrong signal

0.69

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both cinnamon and clove — candidates for completing the dish.

Nutmeg0.40 Apple0.38 Cardamom0.37 Allspice0.34 Mace0.31 Prune0.30 Brown sugar0.30 Orange0.29

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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