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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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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
Paper–ingredient links
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2021 Environmental science and pollution research international other

Characterization of US population levels of urinary methylcarbamoyl mercapturic acid, a metabolite of N,N-dimethylformamide and methyl isocyanate, in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2006 and 2011-2016.

Methylcarbamoyl mercapturic acid (MCAMA, N-acetyl-S-(N-methylcarbamoyl)-L-cysteine) is a urinary metabolite of N,N-dimethylformamide and methyl isocyanate, which are volatile organ... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33398732 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-12135-7 Full text on PMC
2021 pharmacology

Evaluation of the effects of <i>Chlorella vulgaris</i>, <i>Nannochloropsis salina</i>, and <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i> on growth, yield and active compound compositions of <i>Moringa oleifera</i> under salinity stress.

Application of <i>Chlorella vulgaris</i>, <i>Nannochloropsis salina</i> and <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i> has been reported to improve the growth of multiple plant species. <i>Moring... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33732054 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.12.007 Full text on PMC

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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.