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Bergamot + Lime

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 6 recipes, and they share 30 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together6 recipes
Ranktop 20% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Bergamot Lime
36bergamot only 30shared 269lime only Bergamot · 66 Lime · 299
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do bergamot and lime go together?

Yes. 6 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 30 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 20% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 30 flavor molecules: 45% of bergamot's 66. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What each one brings

bergamot

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 25% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for lime. It carries 36 molecules lime doesn't have.

lime

The tartness. Sour notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for bergamot. It carries 269 molecules bergamot doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Lemon: the best fit for both, top 11% of pairs with bergamot, top 1% with lime.
  • Coriander: top 26% of pairs with bergamot, top 1% with lime.
  • Rosemary: top 11% of pairs with bergamot, top 4% with lime.
  • Orange: top 11% of pairs with bergamot, top 4% with lime.

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

Recipes with bergamot and lime

We have no browsable recipe that lists both bergamot and lime.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: bergamot has 36 molecules lime doesn't, and lime has 269 that bergamot doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 30 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 36 only in bergamot and the 269 only in lime.

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Bergamot and lime questions

Do bergamot and lime go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 6 recipes, and they share 30 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do bergamot and lime taste good together?

They overlap on 30 flavor molecules: 45% of bergamot's 66. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What goes with bergamot and lime?

Lemon is the best third ingredient: top 11% of pairs with bergamot and top 1% with lime. Coriander and rosemary also fit both.

Can I use lime instead of bergamot?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: bergamot has 36 molecules lime doesn't, and lime has 269 that bergamot doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. 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: Bergamot vs Lime. https://compkitchen.com/compare/bergamot-vs-lime. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_bergamot_vs_lime_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Bergamot vs Lime},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/bergamot-vs-lime},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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