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Unagi Sauce substitutes

Out of unagi sauce? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to unagi sauce in flavor space. Sushi Vinegar is closest at 49%.

  1. 01
    Sushi Vinegar
    49% flavor match
  2. 02
    Thousand Island Dressing
    47% flavor match
  3. 03
    Unagi Kabayaki
    46% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to unagi sauce 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.