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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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Original research
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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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2024 aroma analysis

Effects of Fermentation Modification and Combined Modification with Heat-Moisture Treatment on the Multiscale Structure, Physical and Chemical Properties of Corn Flour and the Quality of Traditional Fermented Corn Noodles.

This study investigates the effects of fermentation modification and combined modification with heat-moisture treatment (HMT) on the multiscale structure, physical and chemical pro... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39766985 DOI: 10.3390/foods13244043 Full text on PMC
2024 gc ms

Utilizing Headspace-Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectroscopy Technology to Establish the Volatile Chemical Component Fingerprint Profiles of <i>Schisandra chinensis</i> Processed by Different Preparation Methods and to Perform Differential Analysis of Their Components.

In order to characterize the volatile chemical components of <i>Schisandra chinensis</i> processed by different Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing methods and establish finger... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39769970 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29245883 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.