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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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Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2008 Journal of food science aroma analysis

Effect of grain type and toasting conditions of barrels on the concentration of the volatile substances released by the wood and on the sensory characteristics of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.

We report the results of an aging trial of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo D.O.C. wine in commercially available oak barrels that differed in the type of wood grain (extra fine and fine) a... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 18803731 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2008.00891.x
2008 BMJ clinical evidence other

Wrinkles.

INTRODUCTION: Skin disorders associated with photodamage from ultraviolet light include wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, tactile roughness, and telangiectasia, and are more common in p... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 19445782 Full text on PMC
2008 Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry other

Headspace sampling and detection of cocaine, MDMA, and marijuana via volatile markers in the presence of potential interferences by solid phase microextraction-ion mobility spectrometry (SPME-IMS).

The successful air sampling and detection of cocaine, methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA), and marijuana using SPME-IMS achieved by targeting their volatile markers (methyl benz... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 18600317 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-008-2229-z
2008 European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences other

Radioprotection of 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde (VND3207) in culture cells is associated with minimizing DNA damage and activating Akt.

Vanillin is a naturally occurring compound and food-flavoring agent with antioxidant and antimutagenic activities. In present study, we explored the radioprotective effect of a nov... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 17981442 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2007.09.006

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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.