substitutes
Mung Bean substitutes
Out of mung bean? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to mung bean in flavor space. Sago is closest at 63%.
- 01Sago63% flavor match
- 02Millet57% flavor match
- 03Hyacinth Bean57% flavor match
- 04Taro57% flavor match
- 05Chestnut55% flavor match
- 06Red Date51% flavor match
- 07Longan50% flavor match
- 08Urad Dal49% flavor match
Cooking with mung bean?
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 mung bean, for the closest match in stock.
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Each match is the nearest neighbour to mung bean 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.