Pair
Pairing
Neutral

Squash + Wax apple

Squash and wax apple 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.

Pairing scores
Cooks withweak signal
-0.02
Tastes likemoderate signal
0.27
Blendedmoderate signal
0.38
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 squash and wax apple — 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.