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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
Paper–ingredient links
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2026 sensory panel

Characterization of Chinese regional characteristic Citrus: Sensory, nutrition and volatile flavor of "Orah" (<i>Citrus reticulata</i> Blanco) in Wuming and Brown navel Orange (<i>Citrus sinensis</i>) in Zigui.

"Orah" (<i>Citrus reticulata</i> Blanco) and brown navel orange (<i>Citrus sinensis</i>, ZC) are Chinese regional characteristic citrus. In this research, the sensory, nutrition an... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41717379 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2026.103652 Full text on PMC
2026 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) other

Development of bioactive cassava starch/sodium carboxymethyl cellulose coatings incorporating green selenium nanoparticles and cinnamon oil for prolonging citrus postharvest life.

Postharvest diseases and physiological aging shorten citrus supply chains. This study innovatively developed a multifunctional biocomposite coating (CCES2) by synergistically embed... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.