Licorice root + Monk fruit
Licorice root and monk fruit are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.41) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.31). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Chinese tong sui dessert ingredients" 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 licorice root and monk fruit — 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 tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withSweet dessert and confection bases
- Cooks withChinese pantry staples
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese herbal tonic dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeChinese herbal tonic sweet botanicals