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Apricot + Sherry

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 173 recipes, and they share 118 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together173 recipes
Ranktop 8% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Apricot Sherry
264apricot only 118shared 102sherry only Apricot · 382 Sherry · 220
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do apricot and sherry go together?

Yes. 173 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 118 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 8% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (118 of 220) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What each one brings

apricot

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 10% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 4% for sherry. It carries 264 molecules sherry doesn't have.

sherry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 30% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 23% for apricot. It carries 102 molecules apricot doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Plum: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with apricot, top 9% with sherry.
  • Peach: top 1% of pairs with apricot, top 12% with sherry.
  • Pineapple: top 2% of pairs with apricot, top 7% with sherry.
  • Fig: top 1% of pairs with apricot, 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 apricot and sherry

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: apricot has 264 molecules sherry doesn't, and sherry has 102 that apricot 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 118 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 264 only in apricot and the 102 only in sherry.

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Apricot and sherry questions

Do apricot and sherry go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 173 recipes, and they share 118 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do apricot and sherry taste good together?

More than half of sherry's flavor molecules (118 of 220) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What goes with apricot and sherry?

Plum is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with apricot and top 9% with sherry. Peach and pineapple also fit both.

Can I use sherry instead of apricot?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: apricot has 264 molecules sherry doesn't, and sherry has 102 that apricot 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: Apricot vs Sherry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/apricot-vs-sherry. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_apricot_vs_sherry_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Apricot vs Sherry},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/apricot-vs-sherry},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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