substitutes
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%.
- 01Water Mimosa69% flavor match
- 02Agati Flower63% flavor match
- 03Banana Blossom61% flavor match
- 04Snakehead Fish51% flavor match
- 05La Giang Leaf50% flavor match
- 06Squash Blossom49% flavor match
- 07Rice Paddy Herb48% flavor match
- 08Sau Fruit48% flavor match
Cooking with water lily flower?
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 water lily flower, for the closest match in stock.
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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.