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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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Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2024 Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association other

Butylated hydroxyanisole induces vascular endothelial injury via TFEB-mediated degradation of GPX4 and FTH1.

Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) is one of the most commonly used antioxidants and is widely used in food, but whether it causes vascular damage has not been clearly studied. The pre... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 gc ms

Rapid, precise & efficient thin layer chromatography (TLC) method for the detection of major glucosinolates from Indian Mustard (Brassica juncea L.) with special reference to antidiabetic potential revealed by in-silico analysis

<title>Abstract</title> <p>Cruciferous plants are a rich source of various bioactive compounds which possess strong antioxidant potential. The potential antioxidant activity of br... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology other

Optimiranje sastava novog tipa jogurta obogaćenog slatkim košticama marelice: procjena njegovih fizikalno-kemijskih, senzorskih i antioksidativnih svojstava

Research background. The addition of sweet apricot kernel powder, a by-product of apricot processing, to yoghurt appears to be particularly interesting option for the innovation of... 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.