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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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44,648
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2002 Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology aeda

Pharmacokinetics of perillic acid in humans after a single dose administration of a citrus preparation rich in d-limonene content.

d-Limonene, a monoterpene, is widely distributed as a natural nonnutritive constituent of a variety of foods and volatile oils, particularly citrus oils. d-Limonene and its derived... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 12433729
2002 European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V aeda

Formulation of an oral dosage form utilizing the properties of cubic liquid crystalline phases of glyceryl monooleate.

Glyceryl monooleate is a Food and Drug Administration-approved food additive which has the ability to form various liquid crystalline phases in the presence of various amounts of w... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 11976023 DOI: 10.1016/s0939-6411(02)00016-4

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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.