Citric acid + Lemon balm
Citric acid and lemon balm are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "Sweet cocktail fruits and liqueurs" 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 citric acid and lemon balm — 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 withSweet cocktail fruits and liqueurs
- BlendedSweet baking and fruit confections
- BlendedFloral fruit and pastry confections
- BlendedSweet liqueurs and fruity confections
- BlendedSweet baking and confectionery ingredients
- BlendedFruity cocktails and sweet dessert liqueurs
- Tastes likeBaking leaveners and sweet pastry ingredients