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Water Lily Flower substitutes

Out of water lily flower? These are its closest flavor matches, ranked by Epicure's flavor-compound model — the percentage is how near each sits to water lily flower in flavor space. Water Mimosa is closest at 69%.

  1. 01
    Water Mimosa
    69% flavor match
  2. 02
    Agati Flower
    63% flavor match
  3. 03
    Banana Blossom
    61% flavor match
  4. 04
    Snakehead Fish
    51% flavor match
  5. 05
    La Giang Leaf
    50% flavor match
  6. 06
    Squash Blossom
    49% flavor match
  7. 07
    Rice Paddy Herb
    48% flavor match
  8. 08
    Sau Fruit
    48% flavor match

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How we choose these

Each match is the nearest neighbour to water lily flower 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.