Gardenia flower + Hawthorn
Gardenia flower and hawthorn are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.42) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Chinese tong sui 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 gardenia flower and hawthorn — 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 tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian herbal teas and cooling desserts
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese herbal teas and floral confections
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese traditional sweets and botanicals
- Tastes likeEast Asian tonic herbs and grains