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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

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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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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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2021 aroma analysis

The potential of spent coffee grounds hydrolysates fermented with <i>Torulaspora delbrueckii</i> and <i>Pichia kluyveri</i> for developing an alcoholic beverage: The yeasts growth and chemical compounds modulation by yeast extracts.

This study evaluated the effects of yeast extracts (YE) addition (0 % and 0.25 %, w/v) on the no-volatile and volatile compounds of spent coffee grounds (SCG) hydrolysates fermente... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 34382007 DOI: 10.1016/j.crfs.2021.07.004 Full text on PMC
2021 Taylor and Francis other

Moderate Beer Consumption Modifies Tumoral Growth Parameters and Pyrrolidone Carboxypeptidase Type-I and Type-II Specific Activities in the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Mammary Gland Axis in an Animal Model of Breast Cancer

Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found athttps://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=hnuc20Nutrition and CancerISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.