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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

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44,648
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2020 Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology other

Mendelian Randomization Analysis of n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Levels and Pancreatic Cancer Risk.

BACKGROUND: Whether circulating polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) levels are associated with pancreatic cancer risk is uncertain. Mendelian randomization (MR) represents a study de... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32967863 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0651 Full text on PMC
2020 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) other

In Vitro Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Lactobacillus coryniformis BCH-4 Bioactive Compounds and Determination of their Bioprotective Effects on Nutritional Components of Maize (Zea mays L.).

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) can synthesize antimicrobial compounds (AMCs) with nutritional and bioprotective properties in crops and food products. In the current study, AMCs of Lac... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 33066377 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25204685 Full text on PMC
2020 other

Understanding the Biosynthetic Changes that Give Origin to the Distinctive Flavor of Sotol: Microbial Identification and Analysis of the Volatile Metabolites Profiles During Sotol (<i>Dasylirion</i> sp.) Must Fermentation.

In northern Mexico, the distilled spirit sotol with a denomination of origin is made from species of <i>Dasylirion</i>. The configuration of the volatile metabolites produced durin... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32708695 DOI: 10.3390/biom10071063 Full text on PMC
2020 Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences other

A rapid GC-FID method for determination of sabinene, β-pinene, α-thujone and β-thujone in the essential oil of Kitchen Sage (Salvia officinalis L.).

Terpenes and terpenoids are dominant fragrances in the essential oils of many economically important fruits and vegetables. Hence, content and variation are important factors in th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32447252 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122159

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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.