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Cranberry + Mint

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 39 recipes, and they share 100 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together39 recipes
Ranktop 10% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Cranberry Mint
234cranberry only 100shared 66mint only Cranberry · 334 Mint · 166
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do cranberry and mint go together?

Yes. 39 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 100 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of mint's flavor molecules (100 of 166) also occur in cranberry. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-decadienal (seaweed) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What each one brings

cranberry

The tartness. Sour notes make up 17% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for mint. It carries 234 molecules mint doesn't have.

mint

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 19% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for cranberry. It carries 66 molecules cranberry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Lime: the best fit for both, top 5% of pairs with cranberry, top 1% with mint.
  • Pomegranate: top 3% of pairs with cranberry, top 2% with mint.
  • Raspberry: top 5% of pairs with cranberry, top 4% with mint.
  • Orange: top 1% of pairs with cranberry, top 9% with mint.

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

Recipes with cranberry and mint

We have no browsable recipe that lists both cranberry and mint.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: cranberry has 234 molecules mint doesn't, and mint has 66 that cranberry 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 100 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 234 only in cranberry and the 66 only in mint.

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Cranberry and mint questions

Do cranberry and mint go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 39 recipes, and they share 100 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do cranberry and mint taste good together?

More than half of mint's flavor molecules (100 of 166) also occur in cranberry. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-decadienal (seaweed) and eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

What goes with cranberry and mint?

Lime is the best third ingredient: top 5% of pairs with cranberry and top 1% with mint. Pomegranate and raspberry also fit both.

Can I use mint instead of cranberry?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: cranberry has 234 molecules mint doesn't, and mint has 66 that cranberry 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: Cranberry vs Mint. https://compkitchen.com/compare/cranberry-vs-mint. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_cranberry_vs_mint_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Cranberry vs Mint},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/cranberry-vs-mint},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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