Pair
Pairing
Complementary

Coriander root + Sand ginger

Coriander root and sand ginger are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.34) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.34). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian aromatic vegetables and mushrooms" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withstrong signal
0.34
Tastes likemoderate signal
0.34
Blendedstrong signal
0.66
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 coriander root and sand ginger — 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.