substitutes
Olive Oil substitutes
Out of olive oil? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to olive oil in flavor space. Red Onion is closest at 63%.
- 01Red Onion63% flavor match
- 02Balsamic Vinegar62% flavor match
- 03Red Wine Vinegar60% flavor match
- 04Cayenne Pepper58% flavor match
- 05White Wine Vinegar58% flavor match
- 06Sherry Vinegar57% flavor match
- 07Pine Nut56% flavor match
- 08Vegetable Stock54% flavor match
Cooking with olive oil?
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 olive oil, for the closest match in stock.
Turn a recipe into a basket →How we choose these
Each match is the nearest neighbour to olive oil 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.