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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 other

Contrasting Behavioral and Electrophysiological Responses of <i>Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus</i> and <i>E. brandti</i> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to Volatiles Emitted from the Tree of Heaven, <i>Ailanthus altissima</i>.

<i>Eucryptorrhynchus scrobiculatus</i> and <i>E. brandti</i> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) are host-specific pests of <i>Ailanthus altissima</i> (Mill.) Swingle (Sapindales: Simaroub... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33466595 DOI: 10.3390/insects12010068 Full text on PMC
2021 gc ms

Development of a Novel Microwave Distillation Technique for the Isolation of <i>Cannabis sativa</i> L. Essential Oil and Gas Chromatography Analyses for the Comprehensive Characterization of Terpenes and Terpenoids, Including Their Enantio-Distribution.

A microwave distillation method was optimized for the extraction and isolation of cannabis essential oil from fresh and dried hemp inflorescences. The developed method enabled us t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33805665 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26061588 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.