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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2024 other

The Repellent Capacity against <i>Sitophilus zeamais</i> (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and <i>In Vitro</i> Inhibition of the Acetylcholinesterase Enzyme of 11 Essential Oils from Six Plants of the Caribbean Region of Colombia.

The repellent capacity against <i>Sitophilus zeamais</i> and the <i>in vitro</i> inhibition on AChE of 11 essential oils, isolated from six plants of the northern region of Colombi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38675573 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29081753 Full text on PMC
2024 pharmacology

Phytochemical Analysis and Antimicrobial Activity of <i>Terminalia bellirica</i> (Gaertn.) Roxb. and <i>Terminalia chebula</i> Retz. Fruit Extracts Against Gastrointestinal Pathogens: Enhancing Antibiotic Efficacy.

<i>Terminalia bellirica</i> (Gaertn) Roxb. and <i>Terminalia chebula</i> Retz. are significant botanicals in ancient Ayurvedic medicine. They are renowned for their therapeutic pro... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39770866 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12122664 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.