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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2010 gc ms

Characterization of the mushroom-like flavour of Melittis melissophyllum L. subsp. melissophyllum by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography (GC-FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)

Food Chemistry 123 (2010) 983–992Contents lists available at ScienceDirectFood Chemistryjournal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate / foodchemCharacterisation of the mushroom-like f... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.05.049 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.05.049
2010 Università degli Studi di Milano aroma analysis

INTERACTION BETWEEN PROTEINS OF PLANT ORIGIN AND WINE COMPONENTS: MOLECULAR-BASED CHOICE OF PROTEIN FINING AGENTS FOR ORGANOLEPTIC IMPROVEMENT

Gelatine, casein, egg albumin, and, more recently, proteins from plant sources are commonly used in winemaking as fining agents to remove particles responsible for turbidity, to im... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.13130/granato-tiziana-mariarita_phd2010-12-17 DOI: 10.13130/granato-tiziana-mariarita_phd2010-12-17

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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.