Pair
Pairing
Complementary

Garland chrysanthemum + Natto

Garland chrysanthemum and natto are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.25). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian high-fiber legumes and roots" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withstrong signal
0.32
Tastes likemoderate signal
0.25
Blendedstrong signal
0.52
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 garland chrysanthemum and natto — 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.