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Beans + Fig

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 39 recipes, and they share 249 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together39 recipes
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62beans only 249shared 93fig only Beans · 311 Fig · 342
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do beans and fig go together?

Yes. 39 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 249 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything beans carries, fig has too: 249 of beans's 311 flavor molecules also occur in fig. Among the shared key aromas are damascenone (apple, rose) and 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

What each one brings

beans

The floral side. Floral notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for fig. It carries 62 molecules fig doesn't have.

fig

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 20% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for beans. It carries 93 molecules beans doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Almond: the best fit for both, top 5% of pairs with beans, top 3% with fig.
  • Sweet potato: top 1% of pairs with beans, top 10% with fig.
  • Vanilla: top 8% of pairs with beans, top 1% with fig.
  • Pomegranate: top 5% of pairs with beans, top 3% with fig.

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

Recipes with beans and fig

Almost always desserts: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are desserts.

Asure

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Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (80% of beans's and 73% of fig's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 249 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 62 only in beans and the 93 only in fig.

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Beans and fig questions

Do beans and fig go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 39 recipes, and they share 249 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do beans and fig taste good together?

Almost everything beans carries, fig has too: 249 of beans's 311 flavor molecules also occur in fig. Among the shared key aromas are damascenone (apple, rose) and 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

What goes with beans and fig?

Almond is the best third ingredient: top 5% of pairs with beans and top 3% with fig. Sweet potato and vanilla also fit both.

What can you make with beans and fig?

Almost always desserts: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are desserts. Common dishes include Asure.

Can I use fig instead of beans?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (80% of beans's and 73% of fig's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

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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: Beans vs Fig. https://compkitchen.com/compare/beans-vs-fig. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_beans_vs_fig_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Beans vs Fig},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/beans-vs-fig},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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