Rice paddy herb + Water lily flower

Rice paddy herb and water lily flower pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "Southeast Asian tropical herbs and staples" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withstrong signal

0.34

Tastes likestrong signal

0.48

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 rice paddy herb and water lily flower — candidates for completing the dish.

Water mimosa0.46 Banana blossom0.37 Agati flower0.33 La giang leaf0.33 Mudskipper0.31 Annatto seed0.31 Water spinach0.30 Fermented fish0.30

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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