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Lotus Seed substitutes

Out of lotus seed? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to lotus seed in flavor space. Lily Bulb is closest at 66%.

  1. 01
    Lily Bulb
    66% flavor match
  2. 02
    Snow Fungus
    65% flavor match
  3. 03
    Fox Nut
    64% flavor match
  4. 04
    Goji Berry
    62% flavor match
  5. 05
    Glutinous Rice
    56% flavor match
  6. 06
    Black Rice
    52% flavor match
  7. 07
    Peach Gum
    51% flavor match
  8. 08
    Astragalus Root
    50% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to lotus seed 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.