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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
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2019 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) aeda

Aroma characterization of a wild plant (Sanguisorba albanica) from Kosovo using multiple headspace solid phase microextraction combined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry.

A wild plant (Sanguisorba albanica) from Kosovo exhibits an appealing aroma, which was perceived as intensely fresh, green, and slightly sweetish with hints of cucumber, melon, and... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2019 Journal of agricultural and food chemistry threshold study

Comparison of Potent Odorants in Raw and Ripened Pu-Erh Tea Infusions Based on Odor Activity Value Calculation and Multivariate Analysis: Understanding the Role of Pile Fermentation.

Infusions prepared from raw pu-erh tea (RAPT) and ripened pu-erh tea (RIPT) showed remarkable aroma differences. Predominant odorants in RAPT and RIPT infusions were identified and... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2019 sensory panel

Chemical Composition, Enantiomeric Distribution, and Sensory Evaluation of the Essential Oils Distilled from the Ecuadorian Species <i>Myrcianthes myrsinoides</i> (Kunth) Grifo and <i>Myrcia mollis</i> (Kunth) DC. (Myrtaceae).

The essential oils of <i>Myrcianthes myrsinoides</i> and <i>Myrcia mollis</i>, belonging to the Myrtaceae family, were obtained by steam distillation. They were analyzed by gas chr... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 31731807 DOI: 10.3390/plants8110511 Full text on PMC
2019 BMC complementary and alternative medicine gc ms

Chemical composition and bioactivity of essential oils and Ethanolic extracts of Ocimum basilicum L. and Thymus algeriensis Boiss. & Reut. from the Algerian Saharan Atlas.

BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in the pharmaceutical and food industries to substitute synthetic chemicals with naturally occurring compounds possessing bioactive propert... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 31227024 DOI: 10.1186/s12906-019-2556-y 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.