Lime + Mango
Lime and mango are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.25). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Tart fruits nuts and spirits" 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 lime and mango — 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 withTart fruits nuts and spirits
- Cooks withSweet-tart fruits and baking aromatics
- Cooks withFruit and spirit dessert flavorings
- Cooks withTropical and Asian fresh fruits
- Cooks withSweet confections and dessert spirits
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedEast Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedSoutheast Asian sweet coconut dessert ingredients