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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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2026 pharmacology

Identification of Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, and Cytotoxic Compounds From Hymenocardia acida Tul. Using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Quadrupole Exactive-Orbitrap-Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Networking Approach.

Hymenocardia acida Tul. is a medicinal plant used in Angola to treat microbial diseases. It is a well-known plant among local populations; however, few studies have focused on the... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41406036 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202502485 Full text on PMC
2026 gc ms

Phytochemistry and Allelopathic Properties of Invasive <i>Heracleum sosnowskyi</i> Aqueous Extracts Against Lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i> L.), Perennial Ryegrass (<i>Lolium perenne</i> L.), Timothy (<i>Phleum pratense</i> L.) and White Clover (<i>Trifolium repens</i> L.).

<i>Heracleum sosnowskyi</i> is considered to be a dangerous invasive plant species that has successfully naturalized within a variety of plant communities across numerous countries... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41681512 DOI: 10.3390/plants15030346 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.