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Gooseberry + Nutmeg

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 227 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together13 recipes
Ranktop 10% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Gooseberry Nutmeg
59gooseberry only 227shared 74nutmeg only Gooseberry · 286 Nutmeg · 301
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do gooseberry and nutmeg go together?

Yes. 13 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 227 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (227 of 286) also occur in nutmeg. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What each one brings

gooseberry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for nutmeg. It carries 59 molecules nutmeg doesn't have.

nutmeg

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for gooseberry. It carries 74 molecules gooseberry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Cinnamon: the best fit for both, top 10% of pairs with gooseberry, top 1% with nutmeg.
  • Fennel: top 1% of pairs with gooseberry, top 3% with nutmeg.
  • Clove: top 8% of pairs with gooseberry, top 1% with nutmeg.
  • Sorrel: top 2% of pairs with gooseberry, top 5% with nutmeg.

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

Recipes with gooseberry and nutmeg

We have no browsable recipe that lists both gooseberry and nutmeg.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (79% of gooseberry's and 75% of nutmeg's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 227 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 59 only in gooseberry and the 74 only in nutmeg.

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Gooseberry and nutmeg questions

Do gooseberry and nutmeg go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 227 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do gooseberry and nutmeg taste good together?

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (227 of 286) also occur in nutmeg. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What goes with gooseberry and nutmeg?

Cinnamon is the best third ingredient: top 10% of pairs with gooseberry and top 1% with nutmeg. Fennel and clove also fit both.

Can I use nutmeg instead of gooseberry?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (79% of gooseberry's and 75% of nutmeg'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: Gooseberry vs Nutmeg. https://compkitchen.com/compare/gooseberry-vs-nutmeg. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_gooseberry_vs_nutmeg_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Gooseberry vs Nutmeg},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/gooseberry-vs-nutmeg},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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