substitutes
Barley substitutes
Out of barley? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to barley in flavor space. Hyacinth Bean is closest at 49%.
Cooking with barley?
Paste your recipe into Mise — we'll find every ingredient as a real product you can buy, and swap the ones you can't, like barley, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to barley in Epicure, a food-science model mapping the aroma compounds of ~1,790 ingredients across 4 million recipes. The percentage is their flavor-space similarity. Taste as you go — substitutes shift texture and intensity too.
Flavor data: Epicure (Radzikowski & Chen, 2026), arXiv:2605.22391, CC-BY-4.0.