Pumpkin seed + Wheat germ
Pumpkin seed and wheat germ 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 "High-protein seafood seeds and soy" 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 pumpkin seed and wheat germ — 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 withHigh-protein seafood seeds and soy
- Cooks withSweet baking and plant-based pantry staples
- Cooks withWhole grain and seed pantry staples
- BlendedProtein-dense seeds and nuts
- BlendedFiber-rich nuts seeds and whole grains
- BlendedPlant-based whole food pantry staples
- BlendedWhole grain seeds and natural sweeteners
- Tastes likeHigh-protein seeds, legumes, and seafood