Kidney + Pinto bean
Kidney and pinto bean are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.43) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory herbs and cheeses" 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 kidney and pinto bean — 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 withMediterranean savory herbs and cheeses
- Cooks withSavory Latin-inflected aromatics and vegetables
- Cooks withSavory whole-food Mediterranean pantry staples
- Cooks withSavory cheese and hearty protein staples
- BlendedMexican peppers beans and cheeses
- Tastes likeMexican chiles peppers and beans
- Tastes likeHearty savory Mediterranean meats and staples
- Tastes likeAmerican comfort food condiments and seasonings