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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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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
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2018 Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry other

S-Allyl-L-cysteine sulfoxide, a garlic odor precursor, suppresses elevation in blood ethanol concentration by accelerating ethanol metabolism and preventing ethanol absorption from gut.

Alcoholic beverages are enjoyed together with meals worldwide, but their excessive intake is associated with an increased risk of various diseases. We investigated whether S-allyl-... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2018 Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry other

Full Conformational Landscape of 3-Methoxyphenol Revealed by Room Temperature mm-wave Rotational Spectroscopy Supported by Quantum Chemical Calculations.

Room temperature millimeter-wave rotational spectroscopy supported by high level of theory calculations have been employed to fully characterise the conformational landscape of 3-M... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.