Lettuce + Mache
Lettuce and mache are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean vinegars and piquant peppers" 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 lettuce and mache — 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 vinegars and piquant peppers
- Cooks withFresh whole vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withMediterranean salad and composed dish ingredients
- BlendedMediterranean vinegars and savory spices
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetables and grains
- BlendedTangy condiments and salad accompaniments
- Tastes likeEast-Asian mild vegetables and tubers
- Tastes likeEast-Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms