Crab apple + Preserved plum
Crab apple and preserved plum 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 "Tart fruits nuts and spirits" 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 crab apple and preserved plum — 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 withTart fruits nuts and spirits
- Cooks withSweet dessert and confection bases
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and seeds
- BlendedSweet fruity dessert fruits and florals
- BlendedSweet-sour fruits nuts and grains
- Tastes likeEast-Asian sweet grains and tropical seeds
- Tastes likeFruits nuts and whole grains
- Tastes likeAsian tropical and dried fruits