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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.

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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2024 Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology other

The scent of offspring: chemical profiles of larvae change during development and affect parental behavior in a burying beetle.

Chemical cues and signals, especially in insects, play a pivotal role in mediating interactions between individuals. Past studies have largely focused on adult semiochemicals and h... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39139623 DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arae061 Full text on PMC
2024 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) aroma analysis

Impact of ultra-high-pressure treatment on microbial community composition and flavor quality of jujube juice: Insights from high-throughput sequencing technology, intelligent bionic sensory system, and metabolomics approach.

Ultra-high-pressure (UHP1) technology for cold pasteurization is a viable alternative to traditional heat sterilization for preserving food nutrients and flavor compounds during fr... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie pharmacology

Chlorogenic acid attenuates deoxynivalenol-induced apoptosis and pyroptosis in human keratinocytes via activating Nrf2/HO-1 and inhibiting MAPK/NF-κB/NLRP3 pathways.

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a common mycotoxic contaminant, frequently found in food and feed, causing a severe threat to human and animal health. Because of the widespread contaminati... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology other

Ginsenoside RK1 improves cognitive impairments and pathological changes in Alzheimer's disease via stimulation of the AMPK/Nrf2 signaling pathway.

BACKGROUND: The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is complex, resulting in unsatisfactory effects of single-target therapeutic drugs. Accumulation evidence suggests that low... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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.