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Gooseberry + Almond

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 8 recipes, and they share 233 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together8 recipes
Ranktop 6% of pairs
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53gooseberry only 233shared 48almond only Gooseberry · 286 Almond · 281
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do gooseberry and almond go together?

Yes. 8 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 233 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 6% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything almond carries, gooseberry has too: 233 of almond's 281 flavor molecules also occur in gooseberry. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What each one brings

gooseberry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 9% for almond. It carries 53 molecules almond doesn't have.

almond

The roast. Roasted notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for gooseberry. It carries 48 molecules gooseberry doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Rhubarb: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with gooseberry, top 1% with almond.
  • Biscuit: top 7% of pairs with gooseberry, top 1% with almond.
  • Sorrel: top 2% of pairs with gooseberry, top 4% with almond.
  • Pistachio: top 13% of pairs with gooseberry, top 1% with almond.

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

Recipes with gooseberry and almond

We have no browsable recipe that lists both gooseberry and almond.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (81% of gooseberry's and 83% of almond's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 233 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 53 only in gooseberry and the 48 only in almond.

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Gooseberry and almond questions

Do gooseberry and almond go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 8 recipes, and they share 233 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do gooseberry and almond taste good together?

Almost everything almond carries, gooseberry has too: 233 of almond's 281 flavor molecules also occur in gooseberry. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What goes with gooseberry and almond?

Rhubarb is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with gooseberry and top 1% with almond. Biscuit and sorrel also fit both.

Can I use almond instead of gooseberry?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (81% of gooseberry's and 83% of almond's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

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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: Gooseberry vs Almond. https://compkitchen.com/compare/gooseberry-vs-almond. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_gooseberry_vs_almond_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Gooseberry vs Almond},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/gooseberry-vs-almond},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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