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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
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Ingredients cited
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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緑茶カテキンと抹茶様香気画分によるヒト慢性疾患に対する医生物学的研究

埼玉大学博士(理学)101p日本は世界でも有数の長寿国であり、更に高齢化が進むと予測されている。このような状況において、単なる寿命の延長ではなく、健康で支障なく日常生活を送れる期間、いわゆる「健康寿命」を伸ばすことが強く望まれている。健康寿命を延長するためには、がん、脳卒中、心臓病や認知症などの慢性疾患に対する予防対策が必要である。緑茶(Camellia s... 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.