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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 gc ms

Solid-Phase Microextraction/Gas Chromatography-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Approach Combined with Network Pharmacology Analysis to Evaluate the Quality of Agarwood from Different Regions against Anxiety Disorder.

Agarwood (<i>Aquilaria malaccensis</i> Lam.) is a resinous material from different geographical locations. The current evaluation of agarwood quality is usually based on its physic... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38257381 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29020468 Full text on PMC
2024 gc ms

Chemical profiling of volatile compounds of the essential oil of grey-leaved rockrose (<i>Cistus albidus</i> L.) and its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activity <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in silico</i>.

<i>Cistus albidus</i>: L., also known as Grey-leaved rockrose and locally addressed as šṭab or tûzzâla lbîḍa, is a plant species with a well-established reputation for its health-p... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38435667 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2024.1334028 Full text on PMC
2024 sensory panel

Investigating the Effect of Quince Seed Mucilage Film Reinforced With Carboxymethyl Cellulose Containing Ginger Essential Oil on the Microbial, Physicochemical and Sensory Characteristics of Turkey Meat.

The prevention of spoilage in food products, particularly those types that are susceptible to rapid deterioration, such as poultry meat, has historically posed a significant challe... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40599439 DOI: 10.32592/ari.2024.79.6.1353 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.