Paederia foetida + Pine pollen
Paederia foetida and pine pollen are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.44) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Chinese pantry staples and condiments" 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 paederia foetida 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 withChinese pantry staples and condiments
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian tropical herbs and staples
- Cooks withEast Asian sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese tonic soup and sweet dessert ingredients
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and starches
- BlendedEast-Asian herbal tonics and floral botanicals
- Tastes likeEast Asian confectionery and sweet baking ingredients