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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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Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

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 BMC plant biology other

The effect of foliar spraying of some micronutrients and lanthanum on the morphological and physiological characteristics of summer savory (Satureja hortensis L.) under hydroponic and soil conditions.

BACKGROUND: The use of lanthanum (La) as a rare element has increased in agriculture. Summer savory (Satureja hortensis L.) is an herbaceous and medicinal plant that has received a... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39420275 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05696-z Full text on PMC
2024 Archives of Razi Institute other

Effect of chitosan coating enriched with orange peel (Citrus sinensis) waste extract on prolonged preservation and chemical and functional properties of frozen beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) fillet.

Fish is an important part of the diet in both developed and developing countries. It is highly digestible and contains an appropriate combination of essential amino acids such as l... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40256577 DOI: 10.32592/ARI.2024.79.4.711 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.