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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

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44,648
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2019 International journal of biological macromolecules gc ms

Physiochemical characterization, antioxidative, anticancer cells proliferation and food pathogens antibacterial activity of chitosan nanoparticles loaded with Cyperus articulatus rhizome essential oils.

Essential oil of Cyperus articulatus have known bioactivities, the qualitative chemical composition analysis of the Essential Oils (EOs) by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 30465833 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.11.177
2019 Università degli Studi di Milano other

DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS-FLOW PROCESSES FOR REDOX BIOCATALYSIS AND APPLICATION IN THE CHEMO-ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS

The present thesis has the aim of develop and find new and more environmental friendly synthetic routes for the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and pharmaceut... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.13130/dall-oglio-federica_phd2019-01-18 DOI: 10.13130/dall-oglio-federica_phd2019-01-18
2019 other

Scientific Opinion on Flavouring Group Evaluation 210 Revision 3 (FGE.210Rev3): Consideration of genotoxic potential for α,β-unsaturated alicyclic ketones and precursors from chemical subgroup 2.4 of FGE.19.

The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings of the European Food Safety Authority was requested to evaluate the genotoxic potential of 5 flavouring substances in Flavouring Group E... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32626305 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5676 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.