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Dates + Plum

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 14 recipes, and they share 93 flavor molecules: the top 14% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together14 recipes
Ranktop 14% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Dates Plum
17dates only 93shared 288plum only Dates · 110 Plum · 381
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do dates and plum go together?

Yes. 14 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 93 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 14% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything dates carries, plum has too: 93 of dates's 110 flavor molecules also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are acetic acid (sour, vinegar) and acetoin (butter, cream).

What each one brings

dates

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 18% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 9% for plum. It carries 17 molecules plum doesn't have.

plum

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 25% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 21% for dates. It carries 288 molecules dates doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Fig: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with dates, top 4% with plum.
  • Apricot: top 10% of pairs with dates, top 1% with plum.
  • Pear: top 12% of pairs with dates, top 1% with plum.
  • Vanilla: top 8% of pairs with dates, top 4% with plum.

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

Recipes with dates and plum

We have no browsable recipe that lists both dates and plum.

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of dates's flavor molecules (93 of 110) are also found in plum, but plum has 288 that dates lacks. Dates gives you part of plum's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 93 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 17 only in dates and the 288 only in plum.

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Dates and plum questions

Do dates and plum go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 14 recipes, and they share 93 flavor molecules: the top 14% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do dates and plum taste good together?

Almost everything dates carries, plum has too: 93 of dates's 110 flavor molecules also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are acetic acid (sour, vinegar) and acetoin (butter, cream).

What goes with dates and plum?

Fig is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with dates and top 4% with plum. Apricot and pear also fit both.

Can I use plum instead of dates?

Only partly. Most of dates's flavor molecules (93 of 110) are also found in plum, but plum has 288 that dates lacks. Dates gives you part of plum's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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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: Dates vs Plum. https://compkitchen.com/compare/dates-vs-plum. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_dates_vs_plum_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Dates vs Plum},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/dates-vs-plum},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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