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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 gc ms

Characterization and biocontrol potential of <i>Wickerhamomyces subpelliculosus</i> yeasts isolated from dates: Volatile compounds-mediated antifungal activity against mycotoxigenic <i>Penicillium</i> strains.

Seven yeast strains were isolated from Tunisian dates. The strains were identified by sequence analysis of the D1/D2 domain of the nuclear large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene. Based on t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39498023 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39504 Full text on PMC
2024 pharmacology

Studying the Antifungal Effects of <i>Ageratina adenophora</i> (Sprengel) R. King and H. Robinson (=<i>Eupatorium adenophorum</i> Sprengel) as a Bio-Fumigant Plant Alone and in Combination with Biochar Against <i>Pythium aphanidermatum</i> (Edson) Fitz.

<i>Pythium</i> spp. are soil-borne pathogens that cause damping-off and root rot diseases in many plant species such as cucumber. In the current study, the effect of dried roots-st... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39771209 DOI: 10.3390/plants13243511 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.