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Light Soy Sauce substitutes

Out of light soy sauce? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to light soy sauce in flavor space. Dark Soy Sauce is closest at 71%.

  1. 01
    Dark Soy Sauce
    71% flavor match
  2. 02
    Shaoxing Wine
    71% flavor match
  3. 03
    Oyster Sauce
    70% flavor match
  4. 04
    Sichuan Peppercorn
    67% flavor match
  5. 05
    Doubanjiang
    63% flavor match
  6. 06
    Soybean Paste
    58% flavor match
  7. 07
    Starch
    58% flavor match
  8. 08
    Five Spice Powder
    55% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to light soy sauce 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.