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Raisin + Barley

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 57 recipes, and they share 115 flavor molecules: the top 11% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together57 recipes
Ranktop 11% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Raisin Barley
14raisin only 115shared 238barley only Raisin · 129 Barley · 353
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do raisin and barley go together?

Yes. 57 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 115 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 11% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything raisin carries, barley has too: 115 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in barley. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and decanal (soap, orange peel).

What each one brings

raisin

Much the same character. It carries 14 molecules barley doesn't have.

barley

The roast. Roasted notes make up 11% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for raisin. It carries 238 molecules raisin doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Almond: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with raisin, top 5% with barley.
  • Cinnamon: top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 9% with barley.
  • Flour: top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 13% with barley.
  • Chestnut: top 6% of pairs with raisin, top 6% with barley.

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

Recipes with raisin and barley

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Almost all of raisin's flavor molecules (115 of 129) are also found in barley, but barley has 238 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of barley's character without most of its roast. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 115 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 14 only in raisin and the 238 only in barley.

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Raisin and barley questions

Do raisin and barley go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 57 recipes, and they share 115 flavor molecules: the top 11% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do raisin and barley taste good together?

Almost everything raisin carries, barley has too: 115 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in barley. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and decanal (soap, orange peel).

What goes with raisin and barley?

Almond is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with raisin and top 5% with barley. Cinnamon and flour also fit both.

Can I use barley instead of raisin?

Only partly. Almost all of raisin's flavor molecules (115 of 129) are also found in barley, but barley has 238 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of barley's character without most of its roast. 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: Raisin vs Barley. https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-barley. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_raisin_vs_barley_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Raisin vs Barley},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-barley},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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