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Almond + Kale

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 59 recipes, and they share 214 flavor molecules: the top 3% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together59 recipes
Ranktop 3% of pairs
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67almond only 214shared 6kale only Almond · 281 Kale · 220
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do almond and kale go together?

Yes. 59 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 214 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 3% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything kale carries, almond has too: 214 of kale's 220 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What each one brings

almond

Much the same character. It carries 67 molecules kale doesn't have.

kale

The sulfurous side. Sulfurous notes make up 6% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for almond. It carries 6 molecules almond doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Chia: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with almond, top 1% with kale.
  • Cashew nut: top 1% of pairs with almond, top 1% with kale.
  • Agave: top 1% of pairs with almond, top 1% with kale.
  • Butternut squash: top 3% of pairs with almond, top 1% with kale.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with almond and kale

We have no browsable recipe that lists both almond and kale.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (76% of almond's and 97% of kale's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 214 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 67 only in almond and the 6 only in kale.

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Almond and kale questions

Do almond and kale go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 59 recipes, and they share 214 flavor molecules: the top 3% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do almond and kale taste good together?

Almost everything kale carries, almond has too: 214 of kale's 220 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What goes with almond and kale?

Chia is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with almond and top 1% with kale. Cashew nut and agave also fit both.

Can I use kale instead of almond?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (76% of almond's and 97% of kale's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Almond vs Kale. https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-kale. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_almond_vs_kale_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Almond vs Kale},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-kale},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.