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Raisin + Chestnut

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 65 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together65 recipes
Ranktop 6% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Raisin Chestnut
21raisin only 108shared 130chestnut only Raisin · 129 Chestnut · 238
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do raisin and chestnut go together?

Yes. 65 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 108 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 6% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything raisin carries, chestnut has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in chestnut. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

What each one brings

raisin

Much the same character. It carries 21 molecules chestnut doesn't have.

chestnut

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 11% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for raisin. It carries 130 molecules raisin doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Almond: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with raisin, top 1% with chestnut.
  • Flour: top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 6% with chestnut.
  • Pistachio: top 9% of pairs with raisin, top 1% with chestnut.
  • Cinnamon: top 1% of pairs with raisin, top 5% with chestnut.

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

Recipes with raisin and chestnut

We have no browsable recipe that lists both raisin and chestnut.

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in chestnut, but chestnut has 130 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of chestnut's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 108 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 21 only in raisin and the 130 only in chestnut.

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Raisin and chestnut questions

Do raisin and chestnut go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 65 recipes, and they share 108 flavor molecules: the top 6% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do raisin and chestnut taste good together?

Almost everything raisin carries, chestnut has too: 108 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in chestnut. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

What goes with raisin and chestnut?

Almond is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with raisin and top 1% with chestnut. Flour and pistachio also fit both.

Can I use chestnut instead of raisin?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (108 of 129) are also found in chestnut, but chestnut has 130 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of chestnut's character without most of its fruit. 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: Raisin vs Chestnut. https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-chestnut. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_raisin_vs_chestnut_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Raisin vs Chestnut},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/raisin-vs-chestnut},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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