Gac fruit + Lotus seed
Gac fruit and lotus seed 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 "Chinese pantry staples and condiments" 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 gac fruit and lotus seed — 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 withChinese pantry staples and condiments
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and starches
- BlendedAsian sweet soups and dessert staples
- BlendedSoutheast & East Asian stir-fry ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese herbal tonic sweet botanicals
- Tastes likeAsian floral dessert drinks