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Plum + Spirit

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 11 recipes, and they share 70 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together11 recipes
Ranktop 20% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Plum Spirit
311plum only 70shared 34spirit only Plum · 381 Spirit · 104
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do plum and spirit go together?

Yes. 11 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 70 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 20% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of spirit's flavor molecules (70 of 104) also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

What each one brings

plum

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 9% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 3% for spirit. It carries 311 molecules spirit doesn't have.

spirit

The tartness. Sour notes make up 23% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for plum. It carries 34 molecules plum doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Apricot: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with plum, top 17% with spirit.
  • Peach: top 1% of pairs with plum, top 16% with spirit.
  • Apple: top 2% of pairs with plum, top 14% with spirit.
  • Pear: top 1% of pairs with plum, top 26% with spirit.

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

Recipes with plum and spirit

We have no browsable recipe that lists both plum and spirit.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: plum has 311 molecules spirit doesn't, and spirit has 34 that plum 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 70 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 311 only in plum and the 34 only in spirit.

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Plum and spirit questions

Do plum and spirit go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 11 recipes, and they share 70 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do plum and spirit taste good together?

More than half of spirit's flavor molecules (70 of 104) also occur in plum. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine) and ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

What goes with plum and spirit?

Apricot is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with plum and top 17% with spirit. Peach and apple also fit both.

Can I use spirit instead of plum?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: plum has 311 molecules spirit doesn't, and spirit has 34 that plum 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: Plum vs Spirit. https://compkitchen.com/compare/plum-vs-spirit. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_plum_vs_spirit_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Plum vs Spirit},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/plum-vs-spirit},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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