Shepherds purse + Water celery
Shepherds purse and water celery are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.30) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.30). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian mushrooms and greens" 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 shepherds purse and water celery — 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 withEast Asian mushrooms and greens
- Cooks withChinese pantry staples and tofu products
- Cooks withEast Asian hot pot ingredients
- Cooks withChinese pantry vegetables and umami staples
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- Tastes likeEast Asian mushrooms and vegetables
- Tastes likeEast Asian tofu mushroom and umami staples