Plant based cheese + Textured soy protein
Plant based cheese and textured soy protein are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.41) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Processed convenience pantry products" 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 plant based cheese and textured soy protein — 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 withProcessed convenience pantry products
- Cooks withLatin American pantry staples
- Cooks withSavory whole-food Mediterranean pantry staples
- Cooks withWestern deli cheeses and bold condiments
- BlendedLatin American savory pantry staples
- BlendedSouthern and Creole everyday cooking staples
- Tastes likeProcessed deli meats cheeses and condiments
- Tastes likeAmerican comfort food condiments and seasonings