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Tomato + Red wine

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 806 recipes, and they share 139 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together806 recipes
Ranktop 8% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Tomato Red wine
371tomato only 139shared 144red wine only Tomato · 510 Red wine · 283
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do tomato and red wine go together?

Yes. 806 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 139 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 8% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 139 flavor molecules: 49% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

What each one brings

tomato

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 14% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 6% for red wine. It carries 371 molecules red wine doesn't have.

red wine

The fruit. Fruity notes make up 34% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 15% for tomato. It carries 144 molecules tomato doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Plum: the best fit for both, top 6% of pairs with tomato, top 5% with red wine.
  • Olive: top 1% of pairs with tomato, top 12% with red wine.
  • Thyme: top 4% of pairs with tomato, top 9% with red wine.
  • Capsicum: top 1% of pairs with tomato, top 15% with red wine.

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

Recipes with tomato and red wine

We have no browsable recipe that lists both tomato and red wine.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: tomato has 371 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 144 that tomato 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 139 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 371 only in tomato and the 144 only in red wine.

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Tomato and red wine questions

Do tomato and red wine go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 806 recipes, and they share 139 flavor molecules: the top 8% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do tomato and red wine taste good together?

They overlap on 139 flavor molecules: 49% of red wine's 283. Among the shared key aromas are beta-damascenone (apple, rose) and furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

What goes with tomato and red wine?

Plum is the best third ingredient: top 6% of pairs with tomato and top 5% with red wine. Olive and thyme also fit both.

Can I use red wine instead of tomato?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: tomato has 371 molecules red wine doesn't, and red wine has 144 that tomato 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: Tomato vs Red Wine. https://compkitchen.com/compare/tomato-vs-red-wine. Accessed 2026-11-03.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_tomato_vs_red_wine_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Tomato vs Red Wine},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/tomato-vs-red-wine},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}
}

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