Pair
Pairing
Substitute candidate

Pigeon + Turtle

Pigeon and turtle are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.48) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "High-protein seafood seeds and soy" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withmoderate signal
0.23
Tastes likestrong signal
0.48
Blendedstrong signal
0.65
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 pigeon and turtle — 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.