Pear + Tomato
A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 88 recipes, and they share 267 flavor molecules: the top 14% of all ingredient pairs.
Do pear and tomato go together?
Yes. 88 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 267 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 14% of every ingredient pair we score.
Why they work
More than half of pear's flavor molecules (267 of 361) also occur in tomato. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-decadienal (seaweed) and 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
What each one brings
pear
The fruit. Fruity notes make up 25% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for tomato. It carries 94 molecules tomato doesn't have.
tomato
The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 8% for pear. It carries 243 molecules pear doesn't have.
Add a third ingredient
- Plum: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with pear, top 6% with tomato.
- Cherry: top 4% of pairs with pear, top 4% with tomato.
- Olive: top 9% of pairs with pear, top 1% with tomato.
- Capsicum: top 10% of pairs with pear, top 1% with tomato.
Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.
Recipes with pear and tomato
Mostly mains: 8 of the 16 recipes with a course label are mains.
Can you swap one for the other?
Only partly. Most of pear's flavor molecules (267 of 361) are also found in tomato, but tomato has 243 that pear lacks. Pear gives you part of tomato'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 267 shared molecules
See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 94 only in pear and the 243 only in tomato.
Pear and tomato questions
Do pear and tomato go together?
A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 88 recipes, and they share 267 flavor molecules: the top 14% of all ingredient pairs.
Why do pear and tomato taste good together?
More than half of pear's flavor molecules (267 of 361) also occur in tomato. Among the shared key aromas are 2,4-decadienal (seaweed) and 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
What goes with pear and tomato?
Plum is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with pear and top 6% with tomato. Cherry and olive also fit both.
What can you make with pear and tomato?
Mostly mains: 8 of the 16 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Yellow Pear and Cherry Tomato Salad, Tomato Preserve, Carbonada Criolla I, Chili Sauce.
Can I use tomato instead of pear?
Only partly. Most of pear's flavor molecules (267 of 361) are also found in tomato, but tomato has 243 that pear lacks. Pear gives you part of tomato'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
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
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Pear vs Tomato. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-tomato. Accessed 2026-11-04.
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_pear_vs_tomato_2026,
title = {Compound similarity analysis: Pear vs Tomato},
author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pear-vs-tomato},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}
Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.