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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2017 International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Vitamin- und Ernahrungsforschung. Journal international de vitaminologie et de nutrition pharmacology

Identification of Enzymatic Cleavage Products of β-Carotene-Rich Extracts of Kale and Biofortified Maize.

Provitamin A carotenoids in plant foods provide more than 80% of vitamin A intake for people in developing countries. Therefore, the conversion efficiency of β-carotene to vitamin... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 30499754 DOI: 10.1024/0300-9831/a000437
2017 Journal of oleo science aroma analysis

Production of Valuable Lipophilic Compounds by Using Three Types of Interface Bioprocesses: Solid-Liquid Interface Bioreactor, Liquid-Liquid Interface Bioreactor, and Extractive Liquid-Surface Immobilization System.

Bioconversions such as enzymatic and microbial transformations are attractive alternatives to organic synthesis because of practical advantages such as resource conservation, energ... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 28768956 DOI: 10.5650/jos.ess16240

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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.