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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
627,022
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2024 PloS one other

Microemulsion-based topical hydrogels containing lemongrass leaf essential oil (Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf) and mango seed kernel extract (Mangifera indica Linn) for acne treatment: Preparation and in-vitro evaluations.

Current treatments for severe acne include combinations of synthetic anti-inflammatory and antibacterial drugs, which possess numerous side effects. Therefore, this study developed... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39480758 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312841 Full text on PMC
2024 pharmacology

Isolation and Characterization of Biocontrol Microbes for Development of Effective Microbial Consortia for Managing <i>Rhizoctonia bataticola</i> Root Rot of Cluster Bean Under Hot Arid Climatic Conditions.

Development of native microbial consortia is crucial for the sustainable management of plant diseases in modern agriculture. This study aimed to evaluate the antagonistic potential... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39597720 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12112331 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.