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Sherry + Apricot

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 173 recipes, and they share 118 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together173 recipes
Ranktop 8% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Sherry Apricot
102sherry only 118shared 264apricot only Sherry · 220 Apricot · 382
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do sherry and apricot go together?

Yes. 173 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 118 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 8% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (118 of 220) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What each one brings

sherry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 30% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 23% for apricot. It carries 102 molecules apricot doesn't have.

apricot

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 10% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 4% for sherry. It carries 264 molecules sherry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Plum: the best fit for both, top 9% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with apricot.
  • Peach: top 12% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with apricot.
  • Pineapple: top 7% of pairs with sherry, top 2% with apricot.
  • Fig: top 8% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with apricot.

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

Recipes with sherry and apricot

We have no browsable recipe that lists both sherry and apricot.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: sherry has 102 molecules apricot doesn't, and apricot has 264 that sherry 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 118 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 102 only in sherry and the 264 only in apricot.

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Sherry and apricot questions

Do sherry and apricot go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 173 recipes, and they share 118 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do sherry and apricot taste good together?

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (118 of 220) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What goes with sherry and apricot?

Plum is the best third ingredient: top 9% of pairs with sherry and top 1% with apricot. Peach and pineapple also fit both.

Can I use apricot instead of sherry?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: sherry has 102 molecules apricot doesn't, and apricot has 264 that sherry 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: Sherry vs Apricot. https://compkitchen.com/compare/sherry-vs-apricot. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_sherry_vs_apricot_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Sherry vs Apricot},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/sherry-vs-apricot},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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