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Nutmeg + Gooseberry

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 227 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together13 recipes
Ranktop 10% of pairs
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74nutmeg only 227shared 59gooseberry only Nutmeg · 301 Gooseberry · 286
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do nutmeg and gooseberry go together?

Yes. 13 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 227 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 10% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (227 of 286) also occur in nutmeg. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What each one brings

nutmeg

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for gooseberry. It carries 74 molecules gooseberry doesn't have.

gooseberry

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 16% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for nutmeg. It carries 59 molecules nutmeg doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Cinnamon: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with nutmeg, top 10% with gooseberry.
  • Fennel: top 3% of pairs with nutmeg, top 1% with gooseberry.
  • Clove: top 1% of pairs with nutmeg, top 8% with gooseberry.
  • Sorrel: top 5% of pairs with nutmeg, top 2% with gooseberry.

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

Recipes with nutmeg and gooseberry

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (75% of nutmeg's and 79% of gooseberry's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 227 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 74 only in nutmeg and the 59 only in gooseberry.

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Nutmeg and gooseberry questions

Do nutmeg and gooseberry go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 13 recipes, and they share 227 flavor molecules: the top 10% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do nutmeg and gooseberry taste good together?

More than half of gooseberry's flavor molecules (227 of 286) also occur in nutmeg. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What goes with nutmeg and gooseberry?

Cinnamon is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with nutmeg and top 10% with gooseberry. Fennel and clove also fit both.

Can I use gooseberry instead of nutmeg?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (75% of nutmeg's and 79% of gooseberry's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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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: Nutmeg vs Gooseberry. https://compkitchen.com/compare/nutmeg-vs-gooseberry. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_nutmeg_vs_gooseberry_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Nutmeg vs Gooseberry},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/nutmeg-vs-gooseberry},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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