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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

The science behind the engine

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
959
Ingredients cited
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2026 gc ms

Toxicity of Nanoemulsified <i>Eugenia uniflora</i> (Myrtaceae) Essential Oil to <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Selectivity to <i>Trichogramma pretiosum</i> (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae).

<i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> (fall armyworm) is a polyphagous pest with widespread resistance to synthetic insecticides, while essential oils (EOs) and biological control agents, s... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41600055 DOI: 10.3390/plants15020248 Full text on PMC
2026 Journal of the science of food and agriculture pharmacology

Bioaccessibility of anthocyanins and bioactive compounds from Brazilian berries and their food matrix interaction: an in vitro gastrointestinal digestion study coupled to UHPLC-ESI-TQD-MS/MS analysis.

BACKGROUND: Several commercial berries have been examined for anthocyanin composition, bioaccessibility, and bioactive effects, while Brazilian berries remain underexplored. This s... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41612125 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.70436 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.