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Yam + Turnip

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 12 recipes, and they share 215 flavor molecules: the top 1% of all ingredient pairs.

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Cooked together12 recipes
Ranktop 1% of pairs
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4yam only 215shared 38turnip only Yam · 219 Turnip · 253
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do yam and turnip go together?

Yes. 12 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 215 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 1% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything yam carries, turnip has too: 215 of yam's 219 flavor molecules also occur in turnip. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What each one brings

yam

Much the same character. It carries 4 molecules turnip doesn't have.

turnip

The sulfurous side. Sulfurous notes make up 7% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 4% for yam. It carries 38 molecules yam doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Sorrel: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with yam, top 1% with turnip.
  • Okra: top 1% of pairs with yam, top 1% with turnip.
  • Kale: top 1% of pairs with yam, top 1% with turnip.
  • Lentils: top 1% of pairs with yam, top 1% with turnip.

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

Recipes with yam and turnip

Mostly mains: 1 of the 2 recipes with a course label are mains.

Beef SoupGlazed Vegetables

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Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (98% of yam's and 85% of turnip's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 215 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 4 only in yam and the 38 only in turnip.

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Yam and turnip questions

Do yam and turnip go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 12 recipes, and they share 215 flavor molecules: the top 1% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do yam and turnip taste good together?

Almost everything yam carries, turnip has too: 215 of yam's 219 flavor molecules also occur in turnip. Among the shared key aromas are coumarin (sweet, hay) and 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

What goes with yam and turnip?

Sorrel is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with yam and top 1% with turnip. Okra and kale also fit both.

What can you make with yam and turnip?

Mostly mains: 1 of the 2 recipes with a course label are mains. Common dishes include Beef Soup, Glazed Vegetables.

Can I use turnip instead of yam?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (98% of yam's and 85% of turnip's are shared). 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: Yam vs Turnip. https://compkitchen.com/compare/yam-vs-turnip. Accessed 2026-11-06.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_yam_vs_turnip_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Yam vs Turnip},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/yam-vs-turnip},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}
}

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