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Dandelion + Gin

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 9 recipes, and they share 42 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together9 recipes
Ranktop 20% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Dandelion Gin
195dandelion only 42shared 14gin only Dandelion · 237 Gin · 56
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do dandelion and gin go together?

Yes. 9 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 42 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 20% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of gin's flavor molecules (42 of 56) also occur in dandelion. Among the shared key aromas are 3-methyl-1-butanol (whiskey, malt) and 2-phenylethanol (honey, floral).

What each one brings

dandelion

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 10% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 2% for gin. It carries 195 molecules gin doesn't have.

gin

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 13% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for dandelion. It carries 14 molecules dandelion doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Sorrel: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with dandelion, top 32% with gin.
  • Rhubarb: top 1% of pairs with dandelion, top 23% with gin.
  • Watercress: top 1% of pairs with dandelion, top 38% with gin.
  • Beetroot: top 1% of pairs with dandelion, top 34% with gin.

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

Recipes with dandelion and gin

We have no browsable recipe that lists both dandelion and gin.

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of gin's flavor molecules (42 of 56) are also found in dandelion, but dandelion has 195 that gin lacks. Gin gives you part of dandelion's character without most of its fresh, green side. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 42 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 195 only in dandelion and the 14 only in gin.

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Dandelion and gin questions

Do dandelion and gin go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 9 recipes, and they share 42 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do dandelion and gin taste good together?

More than half of gin's flavor molecules (42 of 56) also occur in dandelion. Among the shared key aromas are 3-methyl-1-butanol (whiskey, malt) and 2-phenylethanol (honey, floral).

What goes with dandelion and gin?

Sorrel is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with dandelion and top 32% with gin. Rhubarb and watercress also fit both.

Can I use gin instead of dandelion?

Only partly. Most of gin's flavor molecules (42 of 56) are also found in dandelion, but dandelion has 195 that gin lacks. Gin gives you part of dandelion's character without most of its fresh, green 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: Dandelion vs Gin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/dandelion-vs-gin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_dandelion_vs_gin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Dandelion vs Gin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/dandelion-vs-gin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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