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Pear + Cabbage

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 29 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together29 recipes
Ranktop 17% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Pear Cabbage
116pear only 245shared 146cabbage only Pear · 361 Cabbage · 391
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do pear and cabbage go together?

Yes. 29 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 245 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 17% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of pear's flavor molecules (245 of 361) also occur in cabbage. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

What each one brings

pear

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 25% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for cabbage. It carries 116 molecules cabbage doesn't have.

cabbage

The sulfurous side. Sulfurous notes make up 11% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 2% for pear. It carries 146 molecules pear doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Apple: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with pear, top 12% with cabbage.
  • Plum: top 1% of pairs with pear, top 14% with cabbage.
  • Lettuce: top 9% of pairs with pear, top 4% with cabbage.
  • Beetroot: top 9% of pairs with pear, top 4% with cabbage.

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

Recipes with pear and cabbage

We have no browsable recipe that lists both pear and cabbage.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: pear has 116 molecules cabbage doesn't, and cabbage has 146 that pear 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 245 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 116 only in pear and the 146 only in cabbage.

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Pear and cabbage questions

Do pear and cabbage go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 29 recipes, and they share 245 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do pear and cabbage taste good together?

More than half of pear's flavor molecules (245 of 361) also occur in cabbage. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

What goes with pear and cabbage?

Apple is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with pear and top 12% with cabbage. Plum and lettuce also fit both.

Can I use cabbage instead of pear?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: pear has 116 molecules cabbage doesn't, and cabbage has 146 that pear 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: Pear vs Cabbage. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-cabbage. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_pear_vs_cabbage_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Pear vs Cabbage},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-cabbage},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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