Luffa + Scallion
Luffa and scallion are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.50) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East Asian savory vegetables and 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 luffa and scallion — 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.
- BlendedEast Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast-Asian stir-fry vegetables
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedSoutheast and East Asian hot pot ingredients
- Tastes likeEast-Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- Tastes likeEast-Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- Tastes likeEast Asian stir-fry vegetables and aromatics
- Tastes likeEast Asian vegetables mushrooms and aromatics