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Sage + Gooseberry

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 18 recipes, and they share 219 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikestrong
Cooked together18 recipes
Ranktop 6% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Sage Gooseberry
92sage only 219shared 67gooseberry only Sage · 311 Gooseberry · 286
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do sage and gooseberry go together?

Yes. 18 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 219 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 6% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (219 of 286) also occur in sage. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What each one brings

sage

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for gooseberry. It carries 92 molecules gooseberry doesn't have.

gooseberry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 11% for sage. It carries 67 molecules sage doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Fennel: the best fit for both, top 3% of pairs with sage, top 1% with gooseberry.
  • Thyme: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 13% with gooseberry.
  • Sorrel: top 5% of pairs with sage, top 2% with gooseberry.
  • Marjoram: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 19% with gooseberry.

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

Recipes with sage and gooseberry

We have no browsable recipe that lists both sage and gooseberry.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (70% of sage's and 77% of gooseberry's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 219 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 92 only in sage and the 67 only in gooseberry.

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Sage and gooseberry questions

Do sage and gooseberry go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 18 recipes, and they share 219 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do sage and gooseberry taste good together?

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (219 of 286) also occur in sage. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What goes with sage and gooseberry?

Fennel is the best third ingredient: top 3% of pairs with sage and top 1% with gooseberry. Thyme and sorrel also fit both.

Can I use gooseberry instead of sage?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (70% of sage's and 77% of gooseberry's are shared). 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: Sage vs Gooseberry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-gooseberry. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_sage_vs_gooseberry_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Sage vs Gooseberry},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-gooseberry},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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