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Malabar Spinach substitutes

Out of malabar spinach? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to malabar spinach in flavor space. Water Spinach is closest at 53%.

  1. 01
    Water Spinach
    53% flavor match
  2. 02
    Agati Flower
    52% flavor match
  3. 03
    Garland Chrysanthemum
    51% flavor match
  4. 04
    Bok Choy
    47% flavor match
  5. 05
    Chinese Broccoli
    46% flavor match
  6. 06
    Oyster Mushroom
    46% flavor match
  7. 07
    Wood Ear Mushroom
    46% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to malabar spinach 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.