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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

Identification, validation and quantification of thymoquinone in conjunction with assessment of bioactive possessions and GC-MS profiling of pharmaceutically valuable crop Nigella (<i>Nigella sativa</i> L.) varieties.

<h4>Background</h4>Plants have been pivotal in traditional and modern medicine globally, with historical evidence supporting their therapeutic applications. Nigella (<i>Nigella sat... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38563005 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17177 Full text on PMC
2024 International journal of biological macromolecules other

Bio-nanocomposite active packaging films based on carboxymethyl cellulose, myrrh gum, TiO2 nanoparticles and dill essential oil for preserving fresh-fish (Cyprinus carpio) meat quality.

This study developed a composite film for packaging refrigerated common carp fillets using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) (1.5 % w/v)/Myrrh gum (MG) (0.25 % w/v) base with the addit... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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A Comparative Study of Physicochemical, Aroma, and Color Profiles Affecting the Sensory Properties of Grape Juice from Four Chinese <i>Vitis vinifera</i> × <i>Vitis labrusca</i> and <i>Vitis vinifera</i> Grapes.

In order to compare the grape juice sensory properties of four common seedless grape varieties (Kyoho, Summer Black, Moldovan, and Sweet Sapphire) in China, a thorough comparison o... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39682961 DOI: 10.3390/foods13233889 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.