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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

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44,648
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2026 gc ms

Anti-inflammatory and skin-regenerative properties of Red Sea <i>Holothuria atra</i>: in vitro wound healing activity of the methanolic extract and in silico anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-<i>α</i> evaluation of its bioactive metabolites.

Marine-derived functional ingredients are gaining attention for their therapeutic potential in skin health and inflammation. The wound healing and anti-inflammatory properties of <... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41395228 DOI: 10.1007/s10616-025-00880-x
2026 other

Exploring ultrasound combined with &lt;i&gt;Litsea pungens Hemsl&lt;/i&gt; essential oil compound coating for modulating flavor and metabolites in Nuodeng ham: A multidimensional analysis by UHPLC-QE-MS and GC-IMS.

The mechanism of ultrasound (US) combined with <i>Litsea pungens Hemsl</i> essential oil (LO) compound coating on Nuodeng ham was investigated at defined power levels, including LO... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41510135 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.103404 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.