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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

The science behind the engine

Every compound-food link in CompKitchen comes from a peer-reviewed source. Search 38,144 flavor-relevant papers — part of a 44,648-paper indexed corpus — on aroma compounds, odor thresholds, GC-MS analyses, and sensory studies that power the pairing engine.

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Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

Unsupervised Recovery of Food Taxonomy from Volatile Compound Profiles: A UMAP Analysis of 450 Ingredients

Without supervision or human-coded labels, a UMAP projection of 7,464 volatile compounds across 450 ingredients reproduces conventional food categories — and surfaces cross-category molecular bridges that traditional culinary intuition misses.

Johnson, M. C. (2026). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459

More original analyses in queue — Rychlik integration writeup and per-compound OAV audits.

44,648
Papers indexed
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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Essential-Oil-Loaded Nanoemulsion Lipidic-Phase Optimization and Modeling by Response Surface Methodology (RSM): Enhancement of Their Antimicrobial Potential and Bioavailability in Nanoscale Food Delivery System.

Nanoencapsulation is an attractive technique used for incorporating essential oils in foods. Thus, our main goal was to formulate a novel nanoemulsion (NE) with nanoscale droplet s... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 34945700 DOI: 10.3390/foods10123149 Full text on PMC
2021 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association other

Toxicological evaluation of the ketogenic ester bis hexanoyl (R)-1,3-butanediol: Subchronic toxicity in Sprague Dawley rats.

Bis-hexanoyl (R)-1,3-butanediol (BH-BD) is novel ketone ester undergoing development as a food ingredient to achieve nutritional ketosis in humans. Male and female Crl:CD(SD) rats... Read full abstract on PubMed →

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

Sources: PubMed (US National Library of Medicine), Semantic Scholar, Europe PMC, CORE. Papers are selected by targeted search queries for each ingredient and compound in our database.