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Tea + Raisin

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 64 recipes, and they share 107 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together64 recipes
Ranktop 20% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Tea Raisin
471tea only 107shared 22raisin only Tea · 578 Raisin · 129
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do tea and raisin go together?

Yes. 64 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 107 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 20% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything raisin carries, tea has too: 107 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in tea. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and decanoic acid (acides aroma).

What each one brings

tea

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 17% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 7% for raisin. It carries 471 molecules raisin doesn't have.

raisin

The tartness. Sour notes make up 18% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for tea. It carries 22 molecules tea doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Cinnamon: the best fit for both, top 7% of pairs with tea, top 1% with raisin.
  • Cardamom: top 8% of pairs with tea, top 8% with raisin.
  • Almond: top 15% of pairs with tea, top 2% with raisin.
  • Ginger: top 7% of pairs with tea, top 11% with raisin.

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

Recipes with tea and raisin

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

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (107 of 129) are also found in tea, but tea has 471 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of tea's character without most of its fruit. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 107 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 471 only in tea and the 22 only in raisin.

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Tea and raisin questions

Do tea and raisin go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 64 recipes, and they share 107 flavor molecules: the top 20% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do tea and raisin taste good together?

Almost everything raisin carries, tea has too: 107 of raisin's 129 flavor molecules also occur in tea. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and decanoic acid (acides aroma).

What goes with tea and raisin?

Cinnamon is the best third ingredient: top 7% of pairs with tea and top 1% with raisin. Cardamom and almond also fit both.

Can I use raisin instead of tea?

Only partly. Most of raisin's flavor molecules (107 of 129) are also found in tea, but tea has 471 that raisin lacks. Raisin gives you part of tea'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: Tea vs Raisin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/tea-vs-raisin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_tea_vs_raisin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Tea vs Raisin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/tea-vs-raisin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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