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Almond + Sherry

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 517 recipes, and they share 83 flavor molecules: the top 12% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together517 recipes
Ranktop 12% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Almond Sherry
198almond only 83shared 137sherry only Almond · 281 Sherry · 220
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do almond and sherry go together?

Yes. 517 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 83 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 12% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 83 flavor molecules: 38% of sherry's 220. Among the shared key aromas are 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet) and 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

What each one brings

almond

The roast. Roasted notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 5% for sherry. It carries 198 molecules sherry doesn't have.

sherry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 30% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 9% for almond. It carries 137 molecules almond doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Pistachio: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with almond, top 21% with sherry.
  • Fig: top 3% of pairs with almond, top 8% with sherry.
  • Vanilla: top 4% of pairs with almond, top 8% with sherry.
  • Apricot: top 5% of pairs with almond, top 8% with sherry.

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

Recipes with almond and sherry

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: almond has 198 molecules sherry doesn't, and sherry has 137 that almond 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 83 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 198 only in almond and the 137 only in sherry.

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Almond and sherry questions

Do almond and sherry go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 517 recipes, and they share 83 flavor molecules: the top 12% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do almond and sherry taste good together?

They overlap on 83 flavor molecules: 38% of sherry's 220. Among the shared key aromas are 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet) and 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

What goes with almond and sherry?

Pistachio is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with almond and top 21% with sherry. Fig and vanilla also fit both.

Can I use sherry instead of almond?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: almond has 198 molecules sherry doesn't, and sherry has 137 that almond 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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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 Sherry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-sherry. Accessed 2026-11-03.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_almond_vs_sherry_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Almond vs Sherry},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/almond-vs-sherry},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}
}

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