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Cranberry + Asparagus

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 10 recipes, and they share 235 flavor molecules: the top 9% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together10 recipes
Ranktop 9% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Cranberry Asparagus
99cranberry only 235shared 80asparagus only Cranberry · 334 Asparagus · 315
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do cranberry and asparagus go together?

Yes. 10 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 235 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 9% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of asparagus's flavor molecules (235 of 315) also occur in cranberry. Among the shared key aromas are trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green) and 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

What each one brings

cranberry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 11% for asparagus. It carries 99 molecules asparagus doesn't have.

asparagus

The roast. Roasted notes make up 10% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 5% for cranberry. It carries 80 molecules cranberry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Lettuce: the best fit for both, top 5% of pairs with cranberry, top 2% with asparagus.
  • Beans: top 6% of pairs with cranberry, top 1% with asparagus.
  • Spinach: top 8% of pairs with cranberry, top 1% with asparagus.
  • Beetroot: top 7% of pairs with cranberry, top 2% with asparagus.

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

Recipes with cranberry and asparagus

We have no browsable recipe that lists both cranberry and asparagus.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (70% of cranberry's and 75% of asparagus's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 235 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 99 only in cranberry and the 80 only in asparagus.

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Cranberry and asparagus questions

Do cranberry and asparagus go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 10 recipes, and they share 235 flavor molecules: the top 9% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do cranberry and asparagus taste good together?

More than half of asparagus's flavor molecules (235 of 315) also occur in cranberry. Among the shared key aromas are trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green) and 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

What goes with cranberry and asparagus?

Lettuce is the best third ingredient: top 5% of pairs with cranberry and top 2% with asparagus. Beans and spinach also fit both.

Can I use asparagus instead of cranberry?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (70% of cranberry's and 75% of asparagus'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: Cranberry vs Asparagus. https://compkitchen.com/compare/cranberry-vs-asparagus. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_cranberry_vs_asparagus_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Cranberry vs Asparagus},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/cranberry-vs-asparagus},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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