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FoodPairing helps you combine foods to create new tastes

There are 2 ways to use the site:
You want to explore what food products you can combine. Click "What fits well with..." on the homepage.
You want to replace a food product by a combination of other products. Click "What can replace..." on the homepage.

You want to explore what food products you can combine

Click "What fits well with..." on the homepage to explore food combinations.
What is the product you want to build your recipe around? E.g. Chocolate
Search for "chocolate" on top-right of the page.
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Navigate in the tree to category "Fermented products",
then select "Chocolate"
You get a FoodPairing tree.

In the middle you see chocolate.
Around chocolate you have 11 branches.

Each branch is 1 category like herbs and spices, vegetables,… The length of the line of the category is not important. This length is only determined for aesthetics.

The length in the cluster of the category is on the contrary indeed important. The shorter this line the more major flavour components there are in common.

If you e.g. take the branch of the flowers and plants, you see Apple blossom, honey and hop. Honey is more close to the middle of the cluster, so it has more flavours in common. But you can also combine hop with chocolate.

You want to replace a food product by a combination of other products

Imagine you are cooking, following a recipe and in the recipe you see you have to add basil. In case you don’t have basil, the idea is: Can you combine other spices you have at home to recombine basil? And the answer is yes.

Click "What can replace..." on the homepage to explore interchangeable food.
What is the product you need to replace? E.g. Basil
Search for "basil" on top-right of the page.
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Navigate in the tree to category "Herbs and spices",
then select "Basil"
You get a tree structure.

This tree structure is different from the FoodPairing tree structure.

You have to take from every branch a product (as every branch represents a flavour typical for basil).

So you see that by combining rosemary, sage and peppermint you can reconstruct the basil flavour.