Skip to main content
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.

From the CompKitchen team
Original research
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
Get one surprising pairing every week — free.
2013 'African Journals Online (AJOL)' gc ms

Comparison of volatile components of flower, leaf, peel and juice of ‘Page’ mandarin [(Citrus reticulata var ‘Dancy’ × Citrus paradisi var ‘Duncan’) × Citrus clementina]

The volatile flavor components of flower, leaf, peel and juice of ‘Page’ mandarin were investigated in this study. Flower components were extracted by using ultrasound (US) water b... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2013 Turkish Journal of Agriculture : Food Science and Technology gc ms

Gyromitra Mantarının Uçucu Aroma Bileşenlerinin Tepe Boşluğu Gaz Kromotografisi Kütle Spektroskopisi (HS-GC/MS) Tekniği ile Belirlenmesi

Gyromitra is one of the poisonous mushrooms with being evaluated as edible mushrooms in Turkey and in many countries. This study was performed to determine volatile aroma compounds... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2013 'University of Leon' aroma analysis

Estudio del efecto de diversos factores tecnológicos sobre las características de calidad del charqui, el chorizo y un embutido crudo-curado bajo en grasa, con especial interés en los compuestos volátiles = Effect of selected technological factors on the quality traits of charqui, chorizo sausage, and a reduced fat dry-ripened sausage, with particular interest in volatile compounds

242 p.El presente trabajo contribuye al conocimiento de los compuestos volátiles de diversos productos cárnicos (charqui andino, chorizo fresco y crudo-curado, embutido crudo-curad... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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.