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Tomato + Sherry

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 Tomato Sherry
378tomato only 132shared 88sherry only Tomato · 510 Sherry · 220
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do tomato and sherry 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

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.

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.

Add a third ingredient

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

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

Recipes with tomato and sherry

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

Can you swap one for the other?

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

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Tomato and sherry questions

Do tomato and sherry 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 tomato and sherry 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 tomato and sherry?

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

Can I use sherry instead of tomato?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: tomato has 378 molecules sherry doesn't, and sherry has 88 that tomato 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: Tomato vs Sherry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/tomato-vs-sherry. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_tomato_vs_sherry_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Tomato vs Sherry},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/tomato-vs-sherry},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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