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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 Environmental science & technology other

Molecular Compositions, Mutagenicity, and Mutation Spectra of Atmospheric Oxidation Products of Alkenes and Dienes Initiated by NOx + UV or Ozone: A Structure-Activity Analysis.

Photooxidation products resulting from volatile organic compounds (VOCs) reacting with sunlight are important contributors to gas-phase air pollution. We characterized the product-... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39374177 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c04603 Full text on PMC
2024 gc ms

Molecular Analysis of Volatile Metabolites Synthesized by <i>Candida albicans</i> and <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in In Vitro Cultures and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimens Reflecting Single- or Duo-Factor Pneumonia.

Current microbiological methods for pneumonia diagnosis require invasive specimen collection and time-consuming analytical procedures. There is a need for less invasive and faster... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39062502 DOI: 10.3390/biom14070788 Full text on PMC
2024 Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences gc ms

Analytical methods for detecting butane, propane, and their metabolites in biological samples: Implications for inhalant abuse detection.

Worldwide, various inhalants are widely abused for recreational purposes, with butane and propane emerging as among the most commonly misused volatile substances, posing a signific... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2024 UNSW, Sydney gc ms

Ultrasonication-assisted Maillard conjugation and spray drying strategies to enhance the properties of Amaranth protein-Gracilaria seaweed conjugates and reaction products for potential food applications

The applicability of plant-based proteins in food processing industries is often restricted by their suboptimal functional properties, including solubility, emulsification and wate... 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.