substitutes
Hawthorn substitutes
Out of hawthorn? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to hawthorn in flavor space. Osmanthus Flower is closest at 60%.
- 01Osmanthus Flower60% flavor match
- 02Dried Tangerine Peel55% flavor match
- 03Rock Sugar54% flavor match
- 04Snow Fungus49% flavor match
- 05Hibiscus48% flavor match
- 06Monk Fruit48% flavor match
- 07Chrysanthemum46% flavor match
- 08Goji Berry46% flavor match
Cooking with hawthorn?
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 hawthorn, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to hawthorn 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.