Pear + Gooseberry
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 6 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.
Do pear and gooseberry go together?
Yes. 6 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 245 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.
Why they work
Almost everything gooseberry carries, pear has too: 245 of gooseberry's 286 flavor molecules also occur in pear. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
What each one brings
pear
The fruit. Fruity notes make up 25% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 16% for gooseberry. It carries 116 molecules gooseberry doesn't have.
gooseberry
The tartness. Sour notes make up 19% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 16% for pear. It carries 41 molecules pear doesn't have.
Add a third ingredient
- Plum: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with pear, top 6% with gooseberry.
- Apple: top 1% of pairs with pear, top 8% with gooseberry.
- Apricot: top 1% of pairs with pear, top 7% with gooseberry.
- Quince: top 1% of pairs with pear, top 7% with gooseberry.
Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.
Recipes with pear and gooseberry
We have no browsable recipe that lists both pear and gooseberry.
Can you swap one for the other?
Only partly. Almost all of gooseberry's flavor molecules (245 of 286) are also found in pear, but pear has 116 that gooseberry lacks. Gooseberry gives you part of pear's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.
All 245 shared molecules
See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 116 only in pear and the 41 only in gooseberry.
Pear and gooseberry questions
Do pear and gooseberry go together?
A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 6 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.
Why do pear and gooseberry taste good together?
Almost everything gooseberry carries, pear has too: 245 of gooseberry's 286 flavor molecules also occur in pear. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
What goes with pear and gooseberry?
Plum is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with pear and top 6% with gooseberry. Apple and apricot also fit both.
Can I use gooseberry instead of pear?
Only partly. Almost all of gooseberry's flavor molecules (245 of 286) are also found in pear, but pear has 116 that gooseberry lacks. Gooseberry gives you part of pear'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
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
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Pear vs Gooseberry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-gooseberry. Accessed 2026-11-04.
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title = {Compound similarity analysis: Pear vs Gooseberry},
author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-gooseberry},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
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Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.