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Dashi substitutes

Out of dashi? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to dashi in flavor space. Mirin is closest at 60%.

  1. 01
    Mirin
    60% flavor match
  2. 02
    Mentsuyu
    59% flavor match
  3. 03
    Shichimi Togarashi
    56% flavor match
  4. 04
    Bonito Flakes
    54% flavor match
  5. 05
    Chikuwa
    51% flavor match
  6. 06
    Udon Noodle
    49% flavor match
  7. 07
    Kombu
    47% flavor match

Cooking with dashi?

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 dashi, for the closest match in stock.

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to dashi 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.