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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
Paper–ingredient links
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2020 Journal of separation science gc ms

Exploiting the versatility of vacuum-assisted headspace solid-phase microextraction in combination with the selectivity of ionic liquid-based GC stationary phases to discriminate Boswellia spp. resins through their volatile and semivolatile fractions.

The frankincense resins, secreted from Boswellia species, are an uncommon example of a natural raw material where every class of terpenoids is present in similar proportions. Diter... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2020 gc ms

Inhibitory effect of <i>C. zeylanicum</i>, <i>C. longa</i>, <i>O. basilicum</i>, <i>Z. officinale</i>, and <i>C. martini</i> essential oils on growth and ochratoxin A content of <i>A. ochraceous</i> and <i>P. verrucosum</i> in maize grains.

In the study, antifungal and ochratoxin A (OTA) production inhibitory activities of essential oils (EOs) of <i>Cinnamomum zeylanicum</i>, <i>Curcuma longa</i>, <i>Ocimum basilicum<... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32637345 DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2020.e00490 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.