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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.

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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
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2019 gc ms

Metabolomics dataset of underutilized Indonesian fruits; rambai (<i>Baccaurea motleyana</i>), nangkadak (<i>Artocarpus nangkadak</i>), rambutan (<i>Nephelium lappaceum</i>) and Sidempuan salak (<i>Salacca sumatrana</i>) using GCMS and LCMS.

The information of secondary metabolite compound from underutilized Indonesian fruits are still limited including rambai (<i>Baccaurea motleyana</i> Müll.Arg.), nangkadak (<i>Artoc... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 31372379 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103706 Full text on PMC
2019 gc ms

Toxic by design? Formation of thermal degradants and cyanide from carboxamide-type synthetic cannabinoids CUMYL-PICA, 5F-CUMYL-PICA, AMB-FUBINACA, MDMB-FUBINACA, NNEI, and MN-18 during exposure to high temperatures.

<h4>Purpose</h4>The use of novel synthetic cannabinoids as intoxicants continues in spite of associated health risks. These compounds are typically smoked or vaporized, but many sy... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 30705707 DOI: 10.1007/s11419-018-0430-0 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.