Coconut + Coconut milk
Coconut and coconut milk are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Asian sweet dessert ingredients" 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 coconut and coconut milk — 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 withAsian sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withTart fruits nuts and spirits
- Cooks withFruit and spirit dessert flavorings
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tropical beverage ingredients
- Cooks withWhole grain and seed pantry staples
- Cooks withSweet dessert and fruit base ingredients
- BlendedSoutheast Asian sweet coconut dessert ingredients
- BlendedPlant-based whole food pantry staples