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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

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
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2026 gc ms

Chemical characterisation of the essential oils of three <i>Baccharis</i> species: <i>Baccharis pentodonta</i> Malme, <i>Baccharis tridentata</i> Vahl, and <i>Baccharis linearifolia</i> Pers.

<i>Baccharis</i> species (Asteraceae) are widely used in South American traditional medicine and produce essential oils rich in bioactive terpenoids. This study investigated the ch... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2026 aroma analysis

The Atlantic Forest's underexplored treasure: a comprehensive study of the nutritional, physicochemical, technological properties and a novel bioactive investigation of cambucá pulp (Plinia edulis (Vell) Sobral).

Cambucá is a native and underexploited fruit from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest that is currently at risk of extinction. Given this, the objective was to determine the nutritional,... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.