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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2023 aeda

Unraveling the difference in flavor characteristics of <i>Huangjiu</i> fermented with different rice varieties using dynamic sensory evaluation and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-quadrupole mass spectrometry.

To investigate the specific differences in flavor characteristics of <i>Huangjiu</i> fermented with different rice varieties, dynamic sensory evaluation, comprehensive two-dimensio... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37426180 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1160954 Full text on PMC
2023 Environmental science and pollution research international other

Pyroligneous acids from biomass charcoal by-product as a potential non-selective bioherbicide for organic farming: its chemical components, greenhouse phytotoxicity and field efficacy.

Effective and environmentally friendly herbicides are urgently needed to meet consumer demand for organic products. To evaluate the weed control effect of four pyroligneous acid (P... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2023 gc ms

Novel ethyl p-methoxy cinnamate rich <i>Kaempferia galanga</i> (L.) essential oil and its pharmacological applications: special emphasis on anticholinesterase, anti-tyrosinase, α-amylase inhibitory, and genotoxic efficiencies.

<h4>Background</h4><i>Kaempferia galanga</i> (L.) is one of the prospective therapeutic plants with an aromatic rhizome, and belongs to the Zingiberaceae family. This herb is commo... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36643622 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14606 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.