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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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Compounds indexed
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2010 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association pharmacology

Cassiae semen, a seed of Cassia obtusifolia, has neuroprotective effects in Parkinson's disease models.

Cassiae semen, a commonly consumed tea and medicinal food, has been shown to have multiple therapeutic actions related to the prevention of dementia and ischemia. In this study, we... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20457209 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.05.002
2010 Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology other

Trypanocidal and antileukaemic effects of the essential oils of Hagenia abyssinica, Leonotis ocymifolia, Moringa stenopetala, and their main individual constituents.

Essential oils from three Ethiopian medicinal plants; Hagenia abyssinica (Rosaceae), Leonotis ocymifolia (Lamiaceae), and Moringa stenopetala (Moringaceae) were investigated for th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20359874 DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2010.02.009
2010 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association gc ms

Chemical composition and biological activities of Tunisian Cuminum cyminum L. essential oil: a high effectiveness against Vibrio spp. strains.

Essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation from Tunisian variety of Cuminumcyminum was characterized by means of GC and GC-MS. Twenty-one components were identified and C. cyminu... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20488223 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2010.05.044
2010 Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research pharmacology

Everolimus.

Everolimus, an orally administered rapamycin analog, has recently been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) refractory to i... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20179227 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-1314 Full text on PMC

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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.