Kudzu root + Lily bulb
Kudzu root and lily bulb 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 "East Asian roots and exotic mushrooms" 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 kudzu root and lily bulb — 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 withEast Asian roots and exotic mushrooms
- Cooks withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian medicinal root vegetables
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeEast Asian mushrooms and vegetables
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeEast Asian herbal seeds and sweet fruits
- Tastes likeChinese herbal tonic dessert ingredients