Lychee + Mulberry
Lychee and mulberry are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.30) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.33). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East-Asian sweet 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 lychee and mulberry — 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 sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withTart fruits nuts and spirits
- Cooks withAsian whole grains seeds and fruits
- Cooks withSweet confections and sugary fruits
- Cooks withTropical and Asian fresh fruits
- Cooks withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and seeds