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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 Center for Environmental Studies, Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh gc ms

IDENTIFICATION OF ESSENTIAL OIL COMPONENTS FROM THE PEELS OF LIME (Citrus aurantifolia) AND KAFFIR LIME (Citrus hystrix) BASED ON GROWING ALTITUDE USING GC-MS

Essential oils are oils whose components are generally volatile and are obtained from various types of plants and are the largest demand commodity in marketing circles. One of the... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 sensory panel

The impact of simultaneous inoculation with <i>Torulaspora delbrueckii</i> and <i>Hanseniaspora uvarum</i> combined with <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> on chemical and sensory quality of Sauvignon blanc wines.

Non-<i>Saccharomyces</i> yeasts have great potential in improving wine quality, showing personality characteristics, and highlighting the terroir of wine. In this study, we evaluat... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39113838 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1413650 Full text on PMC

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.