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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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Original research
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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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2024 sensory panel

Valorization of Red Beetroot (<i>Beta vulgaris</i> L.) Pomace Combined with Golden Linseed (<i>Lini semen</i>) for the Development of Vegetable Crispbreads as Gluten-Free Snacks Rich in Bioactive Compounds.

This work aimed to develop gluten-free snacks such as crispbread based on beetroot pomace (<i>Beta vulgaris</i> L.) and golden linseed (<i>Lini semen</i>). Beetroot is attracting m... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38731596 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29092105 Full text on PMC
2024 aeda

Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Combined with Sensory Evaluation for the Analysis of Volatile Aromatic Compounds in Apricot (<i>Prunus armeniaca</i> L.) Germplasm Resources Cultivated in Xinjiang, China.

The volatile compounds in the fruits of 24 apricot cultivars were quantitatively and qualitatively determined via headspace solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39682984 DOI: 10.3390/foods13233912 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.