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Sherry + Tomato

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 492 recipes, and they share 132 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together492 recipes
Ranktop 15% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Sherry Tomato
88sherry only 132shared 378tomato only Sherry · 220 Tomato · 510
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do sherry and tomato go together?

Yes. 492 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 132 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 15% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (132 of 220) also occur in tomato. Among the shared key aromas are damascenone (apple, rose) and 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

What each one brings

sherry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 30% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for tomato. It carries 88 molecules tomato doesn't have.

tomato

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for sherry. It carries 378 molecules sherry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Capsicum: the best fit for both, top 12% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with tomato.
  • Mushroom: top 5% of pairs with sherry, top 7% with tomato.
  • Olive: top 16% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with tomato.
  • Beans: top 15% of pairs with sherry, top 1% with tomato.

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

Recipes with sherry and tomato

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: sherry has 88 molecules tomato doesn't, and tomato has 378 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 132 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 88 only in sherry and the 378 only in tomato.

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Sherry and tomato questions

Do sherry and tomato go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 492 recipes, and they share 132 flavor molecules: the top 15% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do sherry and tomato taste good together?

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (132 of 220) also occur in tomato. Among the shared key aromas are damascenone (apple, rose) and 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

What goes with sherry and tomato?

Capsicum is the best third ingredient: top 12% of pairs with sherry and top 1% with tomato. Mushroom and olive also fit both.

Can I use tomato instead of sherry?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: sherry has 88 molecules tomato doesn't, and tomato has 378 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 Tomato. https://compkitchen.com/compare/sherry-vs-tomato. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_sherry_vs_tomato_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Sherry vs Tomato},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/sherry-vs-tomato},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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