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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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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

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Compounds indexed
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2010 Se pu = Chinese journal of chromatography gc ms

[Analysis of volatile oils of Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. from different geographical origins by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry].

The volatile oils of 23 Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. samples from 4 different regions were analyzed by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrome... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20712112 DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1123.2010.00329
2010 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association other

Application of the margin of exposure (MoE) approach to substances in food that are genotoxic and carcinogenic: example: methyleugenol, CASRN: 93-15-2.

The weight of evidence points to weak genotoxic activity of methyleugenol, the putative genotoxic carcinogen being 1'-sulphate ester metabolite. Dose response modelling of the data... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 20113858 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.10.036

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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.