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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
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2018 AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY other

Quali-quantitative characterization of the honey from Myracrodruon urundeuva allemão (Anacardiceae - Aroeira): macroscopic, microscopic, physico-chemical and microbiological parameters

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the external and organoleptic characters, microscopic, physico-chemical, chromatic and microbiological parameters of the honey fr... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2018 gc ms

Antifeedant Effects of Essential Oil, Extracts, and Isolated Sesquiterpenes from <i>Pilgerodendron uviferum</i> (D. Don) Florin Heartwood on Red Clover Borer <i>Hylastinus obscurus</i> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

The beetle <i>Hylastinus obscurus</i> Marsham (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), endemic to Europe and Northern Africa, is one of the most important red clover pests in Chile. As commerc... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 29861480 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23061282 Full text on PMC

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

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.