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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 gc ms

Synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists containing silicon: exploring the metabolic pathways of ADMB- and Cumyl-3TMS-PrINACA in human urine specimens and post mortem material compared to in vitro and in silico data.

The rapid emergence of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs) poses challenges for drug testing, particularly when analyzing urine samples due to the rapid metabolization... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41055732 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-025-04204-y Full text on PMC
2026 gc ms

Machine learning-driven performance prediction of Z-scheme g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>/SnS<sub>2</sub> heterostructure photocatalyst for complete mineralization of indigo carmine and elucidation of degradation pathways.

The extensive use of synthetic dyes in industry has raised environmental concerns due to their high toxicity and persistence in water. In this study, a Z-scheme g-C<sub>3</sub>N<su... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41593168 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-37528-5 Full text on PMC
2026 other

Flavouring Group Evaluation 87, Revision 3 (FGE.87Rev3): Consideration of bicyclic secondary alcohols, ketones and related esters evaluated by JECFA (63rd meeting) structurally related to bicyclic secondary alcohols, ketones and related esters evaluated in FGE.47Rev1.

The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) of the European Food Safety Authority was requested to consider evaluations of flavouring substances assessed since 2000 by the Jo... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41583340 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2026.9853 Full text on PMC

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

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.