Skip to main content
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.

From the CompKitchen team
Original research
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
Paper–ingredient links
Get one surprising pairing every week — free.
2021 other

Safety and efficacy of feed additives consisting of expressed lemon oil and its fractions from <i>Citrus limon</i> (L.) Osbeck and of lime oil from <i>Citrus aurantiifolia</i> (Christm.) Swingle for use in all animal species (FEFANA asbl).

Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33968248 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6548 Full text on PMC
2021 other

Antifungal properties of volatile organic compounds produced by <i>Daldinia eschscholtzii</i> MFLUCC 19-0493 isolated from <i>Barleria prionitis</i> leaves against <i>Colletotrichum acutatum</i> and its post-harvest infections on strawberry fruits.

Fungal endophytes are microorganisms living symbiotically with a host plant. They can produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have antimicrobial activity. This study aimed t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33959421 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11242 Full text on PMC
2021 gc ms

Detection and estimation of active compounds for cumin aqueous extract and essential oil extracted and studying its effect on prolonged minced meat preservation and their effect on pathogenic bacteria isolated from it

This study was conducted in the laboratories of Food Science dept. in the Faculty of Agriculture, Tikrit University and a number of laboratories in Baghdad, as it included the isol... 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.