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Spirit + Plum

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 11 recipes, and they share 70 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together11 recipes
Ranktop 20% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Spirit Plum
34spirit only 70shared 311plum only Spirit · 104 Plum · 381
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do spirit and plum go together?

Yes. 11 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 70 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 20% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of spirit's flavor molecules (70 of 104) also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

What each one brings

spirit

The tartness. Sour notes make up 23% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for plum. It carries 34 molecules plum doesn't have.

plum

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for spirit. It carries 311 molecules spirit doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Apricot: the best fit for both, top 17% of pairs with spirit, top 1% with plum.
  • Peach: top 16% of pairs with spirit, top 1% with plum.
  • Apple: top 14% of pairs with spirit, top 2% with plum.
  • Pear: top 26% of pairs with spirit, top 1% with plum.

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

Recipes with spirit and plum

We have no browsable recipe that lists both spirit and plum.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: spirit has 34 molecules plum doesn't, and plum has 311 that spirit 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 70 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 34 only in spirit and the 311 only in plum.

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Spirit and plum questions

Do spirit and plum go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 11 recipes, and they share 70 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do spirit and plum taste good together?

More than half of spirit's flavor molecules (70 of 104) also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

What goes with spirit and plum?

Apricot is the best third ingredient: top 17% of pairs with spirit and top 1% with plum. Peach and apple also fit both.

Can I use plum instead of spirit?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: spirit has 34 molecules plum doesn't, and plum has 311 that spirit 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: Spirit vs Plum. https://compkitchen.com/compare/spirit-vs-plum. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_spirit_vs_plum_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Spirit vs Plum},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/spirit-vs-plum},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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