Mung bean + Taro

Mung bean and taro pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "East Asian vegetables and umami staples" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withstrong signal

0.33

Tastes likestrong signal

0.57

Blendedstrong signal

0.72

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both mung bean and taro — candidates for completing the dish.

Glutinous rice0.31 Peanut0.29 Black rice0.28 Ginkgo nut0.28 King oyster mushroom0.28 Grass jelly0.27 Osmanthus flower0.27 Red bean0.27

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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