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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 ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2024 gc ms

Comparative Analysis of Hydrosol Volatile Components of <i>Citrus × Aurantium</i> 'Daidai' and <i>Citrus × Aurantium</i> L. Dried Buds with Different Extraction Processes Using Headspace-Solid-Phase Microextraction with Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry.

This work used headspace solid-phase microextraction with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) to analyze the volatile components of hydrosols of <i>Citrus × aurant... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39124903 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29153498 Full text on PMC
2024 Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) other

Mutagenic Atmospheres Generated from the Photooxidation of NOx with Selected VOCs and a Complex Mixture: Apportionment of Aromatic Mutagenicity for Reacted Gasoline Vapor.

The interaction of sunlight with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from various sources results in mutagenic photooxidation products that contribute substantially to air po... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39380947 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120668 Full text on PMC
2024 aroma analysis

Effect of UV-C Radiation and Thermal Treatment on Volatile Compounds, Physicochemical, Microbiological and Phytochemical Parameters on Apple Juice (Malus domestica) with Raspberry (Rubus idaleus L.)

Volatile compounds contribute to aroma and flavor, these being the main sensory attributes in food acceptance. This work addresses the physicochemical, volatile compounds, polyphen... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.