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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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2017 Università degli Studi di Milano pharmacology

Bio-based materials to deliver and to supply natural antioxidants: intrinsic active materials for food packaging and biomedical applications

The main focus of my Ph.D. research is to study a new way to supply natural antioxidant molecules within a specific substrate using biocompatible polymers, the latter being either... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2017 other

Biosynthesis of volatile terpenes that accumulate in the secretory cavities of young leaves of Japanese pepper (<i>Zanthoxylum piperitum</i>): Isolation and functional characterization of monoterpene and sesquiterpene synthase genes.

Volatile terpenes are ones of the characteristic aromas of Japanese pepper (<i>Zanthoxylum piperitum</i>). It has been hypothesized that the specialized epithelial cells surroundin... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 31275004 DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.16.1231a Full text on PMC
2017 EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority other

Scientific Opinion on Flavouring Group Evaluation 208 Revision 2 (FGE.208Rev2): Consideration of genotoxicity data on alicyclic aldehydes with α,β-unsaturation in ring/side-chain and precursors from chemical subgroup 2.2 of FGE.19.

The EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF) was requested to evaluate the genotoxic potential of flavouring substances from subgroup 2.... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32625478 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4766 Full text on PMC
2017 other

Disproportionate photosynthetic decline and inverse relationship between constitutive and induced volatile emissions upon feeding of &lt;i&gt;Quercus robur&lt;/i&gt; leaves by large larvae of gypsy moth (&lt;i&gt;Lymantria dispar&lt;/i&gt;).

Gypsy moth (<i>Lymantria dispar</i> L., Lymantriinae) is a major pest of pedunculate oak (<i>Quercus robur</i>) forests in Europe, but how its infections scale with foliage physiol... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 29367792 DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.03.014 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.