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Broccoli + Jicama

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 15 recipes, and they share 204 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so the recipe count carries this verdict.

Smell alikestrong
Cooked together15 recipes
Ranktop 2% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Broccoli Jicama
94broccoli only 204shared Broccoli · 298 Jicama · 204
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.
Thin evidence for this pair. We hold no distinguishing chemistry for jicama: every compound on it appears in more than 10% of ingredients, so this score is computed over the background every food shares. Distinguishing molecules on record: Broccoli 59, Jicama 0 (the typical ingredient has 12).

Do broccoli and jicama go together?

Yes. 15 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 204 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 2% of every ingredient pair we score.

Read this with the evidence note above in mind.

Why they work

Almost everything jicama carries, broccoli has too: 204 of jicama's 204 flavor molecules also occur in broccoli. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What each one brings

broccoli

The sulfurous side. Sulfurous notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 4% for jicama. It carries 94 molecules jicama doesn't have.

jicama

The roast. Roasted notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for broccoli. Every molecule it carries is also in broccoli.

Add a third ingredient

  • Yam: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with broccoli, top 1% with jicama.
  • Water chestnut: top 2% of pairs with broccoli, top 1% with jicama.
  • Welsh onion: top 1% of pairs with broccoli, top 1% with jicama.
  • Agave: top 6% of pairs with broccoli, top 1% with jicama.

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

Recipes with broccoli and jicama

Almost always mains: 3 of the 3 recipes with a course label are mains.

Chinese Vegetables and TofuFresh Fiesta Vegetable PlatterFresh Lumpia

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Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Almost all of jicama's flavor molecules (204 of 204) are also found in broccoli, but broccoli has 94 that jicama lacks. Jicama gives you part of broccoli's character without most of its sulfurous side. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 204 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 94 only in broccoli and the 0 only in jicama.

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Broccoli and jicama questions

Do broccoli and jicama go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 15 recipes, and they share 204 flavor molecules: the top 2% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so the recipe count carries this verdict.

Why do broccoli and jicama taste good together?

Almost everything jicama carries, broccoli has too: 204 of jicama's 204 flavor molecules also occur in broccoli. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What goes with broccoli and jicama?

Yam is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with broccoli and top 1% with jicama. Water chestnut and welsh onion also fit both.

What can you make with broccoli and jicama?

Almost always mains: 3 of the 3 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Chinese Vegetables and Tofu, Fresh Fiesta Vegetable Platter, Fresh Lumpia.

Can I use jicama instead of broccoli?

Only partly. Almost all of jicama's flavor molecules (204 of 204) are also found in broccoli, but broccoli has 94 that jicama lacks. Jicama gives you part of broccoli's character without most of its sulfurous side. 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: Broccoli vs Jicama. https://compkitchen.com/compare/broccoli-vs-jicama. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_broccoli_vs_jicama_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Broccoli vs Jicama},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/broccoli-vs-jicama},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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