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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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Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

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
Paper–ingredient links
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2015 'University of Leon' aroma analysis

Efectos de la alimentación de los animales, el cocinado o el almacenamiento sobre los compuestos volátiles de la carne de rumiante = Effects of animal feeding, meat cooking or storage on the volatile compounds of ruminant meat

141 p.Esta tesis estudia los compuestos volátiles de la carne de rumiante y el efecto que sobre los mismos tienen diversas condiciones de producción y cocinado. Para ello se realiz... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2015 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association other

Toxicological evaluation of two flavors with modifying properties: 3-((4-amino-2,2-dioxido-1H-benzo[c][1,2,6]thiadiazin-5-yl)oxy)-2,2-dimethyl-N-propylpropanamide and (S)-1-(3-(((4-amino-2,2-dioxido-1H-benzo[c][1,2,6]thiadiazin-5-yl)oxy)methyl)piperidin-1-yl)-3-methylbutan-1-one.

A toxicological evaluation of two structurally related flavors with modifying properties, 3-((4-amino-2,2-dioxido-1H- benzo[c][1,2,6]thiadiazin-5-yl)oxy)-2,2-dimethyl-N-propylpropa... 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.