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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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2024 other

Divergence of Phyllosphere Microbial Community Assemblies and Components of Volatile Organic Compounds between the Invasive <i>Sphagneticola trilobata</i>, the Native <i>Sphagneticola calendulacea</i> and Their Hybrids, and Its Implications for Invasiveness.

Closely-related plant groups with distinct microbiomes, chemistries and ecological characteristics represent tractable models to explore mechanisms shaping species spread, competit... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39062734 DOI: 10.3390/genes15070955 Full text on PMC
2024 gc ms

The investigation of thermal stability and GC-MS analysis of <i>Acorus tatarinowii</i> and <i>Atractylodes lancea</i> volatile oils treated by <i>β</i> cyclodextrin inclusion and Pickering emulsion technologies.

<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the stability of <i>Acorus tatarinowii</i> and <i>Atractylodes lancea</i> essential oils (ATaAL-EO) under a hot environment at 60 °C, and to analyz... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38439839 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25909 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.