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Almond + Pasta

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 56 recipes, and they share 217 flavor molecules: the top 4% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together56 recipes
Ranktop 4% of pairs
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64almond only 217shared 5pasta only Almond · 281 Pasta · 222
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do almond and pasta go together?

Yes. 56 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 217 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 4% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything pasta carries, almond has too: 217 of pasta's 222 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are nonanal (fat, citrus) and coumarin (sweet, hay).

What each one brings

almond

Much the same character. It carries 64 molecules pasta doesn't have.

pasta

Much the same character. It carries 5 molecules almond doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Cashew nut: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with almond, top 1% with pasta.
  • Butternut squash: top 3% of pairs with almond, top 1% with pasta.
  • Kale: top 3% of pairs with almond, top 1% with pasta.
  • Artichoke: top 4% of pairs with almond, top 1% with pasta.

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

Recipes with almond and pasta

Almost always salads: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are salads.

Thai Salad

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Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (77% of almond's and 98% of pasta's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 217 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 64 only in almond and the 5 only in pasta.

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Almond and pasta questions

Do almond and pasta go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 56 recipes, and they share 217 flavor molecules: the top 4% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do almond and pasta taste good together?

Almost everything pasta carries, almond has too: 217 of pasta's 222 flavor molecules also occur in almond. Among the shared key aromas are nonanal (fat, citrus) and coumarin (sweet, hay).

What goes with almond and pasta?

Cashew nut is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with almond and top 1% with pasta. Butternut squash and kale also fit both.

What can you make with almond and pasta?

Almost always salads: 1 of the 1 recipes with a course label are salads. Common dishes include Thai Salad.

Can I use pasta instead of almond?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (77% of almond's and 98% of pasta'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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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: Almond vs Pasta. https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-pasta. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_almond_vs_pasta_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Almond vs Pasta},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-pasta},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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