substitutes
Fontina Cheese substitutes
Out of fontina cheese? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to fontina cheese in flavor space. Marinara Sauce is closest at 57%.
- 01Marinara Sauce57% flavor match
- 02Portobello Mushroom49% flavor match
- 03Romano Cheese48% flavor match
- 04Broccoli Rabe47% flavor match
- 05Asiago Cheese47% flavor match
- 06Grana Padano46% flavor match
- 07Pesto46% flavor match
- 08Prosciutto45% flavor match
Cooking with fontina cheese?
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 fontina cheese, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to fontina cheese 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.