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Kelp substitutes

Out of kelp? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to kelp in flavor space. Wood Ear Mushroom is closest at 55%.

  1. 01
    Wood Ear Mushroom
    55% flavor match
  2. 02
    Enoki Mushroom
    55% flavor match
  3. 03
    Garland Chrysanthemum
    50% flavor match
  4. 04
    Shiitake Mushroom
    48% flavor match
  5. 05
    Bok Choy
    47% flavor match
  6. 06
    Nori
    47% flavor match
  7. 07
    Wakame
    46% flavor match
  8. 08
    Scallion
    45% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to kelp 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.