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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

<i>Petroselinum crispum</i> L<i>.,</i> essential oil as promising source of bioactive compounds, antioxidant, antimicrobial activities<i>: In vitro</i> and <i>in silico</i> predictions.

This exploratory study aims to identify the volatile compounds in PC-Eo (<i>Petroselinum crispum</i> L. essential oil) and evaluate its antioxidant and antimicrobial properties <i>... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38660278 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29520 Full text on PMC
2024 Tropical animal health and production other

Low dietary oyster mushroom spent substrate limitedly ameliorates detrimental effects of feeding combined marula seed cake and mucuna seed meal as soya bean replacements in broiler chickens.

This study investigated ameliorative effects of dietary oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) spent substrate (OMSS) in broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with combined marula... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38194011 DOI: 10.1007/s11250-023-03878-9 Full text on PMC
2024 gc ms

Comparison of Flavonoid Content, Antioxidant Potential, Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition Activity and Volatile Components Based on HS-SPME-GC-MS of Different Parts from <i>Matteuccia struthiopteris</i> (L.) Todaro.

<i>Matteuccia struthiopteris</i> is one of the most globally consumed edible ferns and widely used in folk medicine. Reports mainly focus on young fronds and the rhizome which are... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38474653 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29051142 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.