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Paprika substitutes

Out of paprika? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to paprika in flavor space. Cayenne Pepper is closest at 67%.

  1. 01
    Cayenne Pepper
    67% flavor match
  2. 02
    Vegetable Stock
    56% flavor match
  3. 03
    Olive Oil
    54% flavor match
  4. 04
    Hot Sauce
    48% flavor match
  5. 05
    Bread Crumbs
    47% flavor match
  6. 06
    Worcestershire Sauce
    47% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to paprika 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.