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Raisin + Hops

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the bottom 17% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together0 recipes
Rankbottom 17% of pairs
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116raisin only 13shared 102hops only Raisin · 129 Hops · 115
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do raisin and hops go together?

Not really. No recipe in our pairing index uses both, and they share 13 flavor molecules. That places them in the bottom 17% of every ingredient pair we score.

What they have in common

They overlap on 13 flavor molecules: 11% of hops's 115. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and eugenol (clove, spicy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What each one brings

raisin

The tartness. Sour notes make up 18% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for hops. It carries 116 molecules hops doesn't have.

hops

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 35% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for raisin. It carries 102 molecules raisin doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Flour: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 32% with hops.
  • Cinnamon: top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 33% with hops.
  • Ginger: top 11% of pairs with raisin, top 24% with hops.
  • Nutmeg: top 6% of pairs with raisin, top 37% with hops.

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

Recipes with raisin and hops

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: raisin has 116 molecules hops doesn't, and hops has 102 that raisin doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 13 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 116 only in raisin and the 102 only in hops.

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Raisin and hops questions

Do raisin and hops go together?

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the bottom 17% of all ingredient pairs.

What do raisin and hops have in common?

They overlap on 13 flavor molecules: 11% of hops's 115. Among the shared key aromas are 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy) and eugenol (clove, spicy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What goes with raisin and hops?

Flour is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with raisin and top 32% with hops. Cinnamon and ginger also fit both.

Can I use hops instead of raisin?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: raisin has 116 molecules hops doesn't, and hops has 102 that raisin doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. 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: Raisin vs Hops. https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-hops. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_raisin_vs_hops_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Raisin vs Hops},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-hops},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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