Lychee + Mung bean
Lychee and mung bean 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 "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 mung bean — 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 withAsian sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withAsian whole grains seeds and fruits
- Cooks withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- Cooks withSweet dessert and tea confections
- BlendedSoutheast Asian sweet coconut dessert ingredients
- BlendedSweet-sour fruits nuts and grains
- BlendedEast Asian sweet grains and starchy seeds