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Dill + Ketchup

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the top 49% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so treat the aroma side with caution.

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Cooked together2 recipes
Ranktop 49% of pairs
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297dill only 45shared Dill · 342 Ketchup · 45
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.
Thin evidence for this pair. We hold no distinguishing chemistry for ketchup: 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: Dill 96, Ketchup 0 (the typical ingredient has 12).

Do dill and ketchup go together?

Unclear. 2 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 45 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 49% of every ingredient pair we score.

Read this with the evidence note above in mind.

What they have in common

Almost everything ketchup carries, dill has too: 45 of ketchup's 45 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal) and decanoic acid (soapy, waxy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What each one brings

dill

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 0% for ketchup. It carries 297 molecules ketchup doesn't have.

ketchup

The tartness. Sour notes make up 35% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for dill. Every molecule it carries is also in dill.

Add a third ingredient

  • Haddock: the best fit for both, top 22% of pairs with dill, top 1% with ketchup.
  • Atlantic halibut: top 22% of pairs with dill, top 1% with ketchup.
  • Sauce: top 28% of pairs with dill, top 1% with ketchup.
  • Horseradish: top 2% of pairs with dill, top 10% with ketchup.

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

Recipes with dill and ketchup

We have no browsable recipe that lists both dill and ketchup.

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Almost all of ketchup's flavor molecules (45 of 45) are also found in dill, but dill has 297 that ketchup lacks. Ketchup gives you part of dill'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 45 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 297 only in dill and the 0 only in ketchup.

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Dill and ketchup questions

Do dill and ketchup go together?

Not a natural pairing: they share little aroma and few recipes use both, which puts them in the top 49% of all ingredient pairs. We hold little distinguishing chemistry for one of them, so treat the aroma side with caution.

What do dill and ketchup have in common?

Almost everything ketchup carries, dill has too: 45 of ketchup's 45 flavor molecules also occur in dill. Among the shared key aromas are ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal) and decanoic acid (soapy, waxy). Most of what they share is background chemistry many foods carry, so the overlap does little for the smell.

What goes with dill and ketchup?

Haddock is the best third ingredient: top 22% of pairs with dill and top 1% with ketchup. Atlantic halibut and sauce also fit both.

Can I use ketchup instead of dill?

Only partly. Almost all of ketchup's flavor molecules (45 of 45) are also found in dill, but dill has 297 that ketchup lacks. Ketchup gives you part of dill'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.

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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: Dill vs Ketchup. https://compkitchen.com/compare/dill-vs-ketchup. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_dill_vs_ketchup_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Dill vs Ketchup},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/dill-vs-ketchup},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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