Hawthorn + Lotus seed
Hawthorn and lotus seed pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. 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 hawthorn 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 withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
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- Cooks withChinese pantry staples
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and starches
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients