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Pine + Raisin

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 27 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together27 recipes
Ranktop 10% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Pine Raisin
176pine only 108shared 21raisin only Pine · 284 Raisin · 129
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do pine and raisin go together?

Yes. 27 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 108 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything raisin carries, pine has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in pine. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

What each one brings

pine

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for raisin. It carries 176 molecules raisin doesn't have.

raisin

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

Add a third ingredient

  • Cinnamon: the best fit for both, top 3% of pairs with pine, top 1% with raisin.
  • Almond: top 2% of pairs with pine, top 2% with raisin.
  • Nutmeg: top 1% of pairs with pine, top 6% with raisin.
  • Brazil nut: top 1% of pairs with pine, top 9% with raisin.

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

Recipes with pine and raisin

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in pine, but pine has 176 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of pine'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 176 only in pine and the 21 only in raisin.

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Pine and raisin questions

Do pine and raisin go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 27 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do pine and raisin taste good together?

Almost everything raisin carries, pine has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in pine. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

What goes with pine and raisin?

Cinnamon is the best third ingredient: top 3% of pairs with pine and top 1% with raisin. Almond and nutmeg also fit both.

Can I use raisin instead of pine?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in pine, but pine has 176 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of pine'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: Pine vs Raisin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pine-vs-raisin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_pine_vs_raisin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Pine vs Raisin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pine-vs-raisin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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