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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
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2020 Journal of agricultural and food chemistry threshold study

Quantitation of Key Aroma Compounds in Fresh, Raw Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) from China and Roasted Ginger by Stable Isotope Dilution Assays and Aroma Profiling by Recombination Experiments.

Twenty key odorants recently identified in raw and roasted ginger were quantitated by means of stable isotope dilution assays, of which six assays were newly developed. Odor activi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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Chemical Composition of a Supercritical Fluid (Sfe-CO<sub>2</sub>) Extract from <i>Baeckea frutescens</i> L. Leaves and Its Bioactivity Against Two Pathogenic Fungi Isolated from the Tea Plant (<i>Camellia sinensis</i> (L.) O. Kuntze).

<i>Colletotrichum gloeosporioides</i> and <i>Pseudopestalotiopsis camelliae-sinensis</i> are the two most important tea plant (<i>Camellia sinensis</i> L.) pathogenic fungi. Intere... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 32872535 DOI: 10.3390/plants9091119 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.