Mung bean + Pine pollen
Mung bean and pine pollen 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 "Southeast Asian tropical herbs and staples" 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 mung bean and pine pollen — 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 withSoutheast Asian tropical herbs and staples
- Cooks withChinese tong sui dessert ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- Tastes likeEast-Asian sweet grains and tropical seeds
- Tastes likeNutrient-dense seeds nuts and whole grains
- Tastes likeBaking pantry leaveners and flours