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Lime + Raisin

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 56 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 16% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together56 recipes
Ranktop 16% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Lime Raisin
191lime only 108shared 21raisin only Lime · 299 Raisin · 129
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do lime and raisin go together?

Yes. 56 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 108 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 16% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything raisin carries, lime has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in lime. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

What each one brings

lime

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 15% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for raisin. It carries 191 molecules raisin doesn't have.

raisin

The tartness. Sour notes make up 18% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 16% for lime. It carries 21 molecules lime doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Cinnamon: the best fit for both, top 5% of pairs with lime, top 1% with raisin.
  • Cardamom: top 1% of pairs with lime, top 8% with raisin.
  • Coriander: top 1% of pairs with lime, top 17% with raisin.
  • Saffron: top 1% of pairs with lime, top 7% with raisin.

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

Recipes with lime and raisin

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in lime, but lime has 191 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of lime's character without most of its herbal side. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 108 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 191 only in lime and the 21 only in raisin.

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Lime and raisin questions

Do lime and raisin go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 56 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 16% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do lime and raisin taste good together?

Almost everything raisin carries, lime has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in lime. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

What goes with lime and raisin?

Cinnamon is the best third ingredient: top 5% of pairs with lime and top 1% with raisin. Cardamom and coriander also fit both.

Can I use raisin instead of lime?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in lime, but lime has 191 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of lime's character without most of its herbal side. 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: Lime vs Raisin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/lime-vs-raisin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_lime_vs_raisin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Lime vs Raisin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/lime-vs-raisin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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