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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.

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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

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
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2009 gc ms

Chemical Composition of Essential Oil of Three Artemisia Species Growing Wild in Iran: Artemisia kermanensis Podl., A. kopetdaghensis Krasch., M.Pop et Lincz. ex Poljak., and A. haussknechtii Boiss

The water distilled essential oils from aerial parts of three Artemisia species: A. kermanensis Podl., A. kopetdaghensis Krasch., M.Pop. et Lincz. ex Poljak., and A. haussknechtii... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2009 African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development sensory panel

Investigation of the retronasal perception of palm wine (Elaeis Guineensis) aroma by application of sensory analysis and exhaled odorant measurement (exom).

The headspace profile of palm wine was evaluated by time-resolved sensory analysis showing significant changes of the diverse odour attributes with time after swallowing. Fruity an... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2009 gc ms

Liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry measurement of targeted metabolites of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 grown on two different carbon sources.

Complementary methods using liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectromet... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 19268957 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2009.02.030 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.