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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2012 Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology pharmacology

Role of orexin-1 receptor mechanisms on compulsive food consumption in a model of binge eating in female rats.

Orexins (OX) and their receptors (OXR) modulate feeding, arousal, stress, and drug abuse. Neural systems that motivate and reinforce drug abuse may also underlie compulsive food se... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 22569505 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.48 Full text on PMC
2012 Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry gc ms

Determination of monomer conversion in methacrylate-based polymer monoliths fixed in a capillary column by pyrolysis-gas chromatography.

Monomer conversion and the resultant copolymer composition of polymer monolith columns are important factors for controlling column characteristics. We propose a new method to dete... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 22975922 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.28.917

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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.