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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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Impact of Different Carbon Sources on Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Produced during Fermentation by <i>Levilactobacillus brevis</i> WLP672 Measured Using Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS).

Bacterial fermentation is considered to be a cost-effective means of generating desired flavour compounds from plant-based substrates. However, the wide range of substrates present... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39064855 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29143275 Full text on PMC
2024 aroma analysis

Evaluation of the effect of dietary supplementation with <i>Allium mongolicum</i> regel bulb powder on the volatile compound and lipid profiles of the <i>longissimus thoracis</i> in Angus calves based on GC-IMS and lipidomic analysis.

The effect of <i>A. mongolicum</i> Regel bulb powder (AMRP) supplementation on the flavour of beef from Angus calves has not been investigated thus far. We used GC-IMS and untarget... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39380571 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2024.101820 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.