Cocoa powder + Walnut
Cocoa powder and walnut are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "High-protein seafood seeds and soy" 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 cocoa powder and walnut — 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 withHigh-protein seafood seeds and soy
- Cooks withFiber-rich nuts fruits and baking spices
- BlendedProtein-dense seeds and nuts
- BlendedFiber-rich nuts seeds and whole grains
- BlendedSweet baking and confectionery ingredients
- Tastes likeHigh-protein seeds, legumes, and seafood
- Tastes likeEastern European hearty pantry staples