Skip to main content
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.

From the CompKitchen team
Original research
Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

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
Get one surprising pairing every week — free.

Choosing a category updates the results straight away.

2023 other

Antioxidant Properties of Thymoquinone, Thymohydroquinone and Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.) Seed Oil: Scavenging of Superoxide Radical Studied Using Cyclic Voltammetry, DFT and Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction

Black cumin seeds and seed oil have long been used in traditional foods and medicine in South Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries and are valuable flavor ingredients.... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36978853 DOI: 10.3390/antiox12030607 Full text on PMC
2023 Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Jordan other

Functional Role of Essential Oils as Antimicrobial and Antioxidat Agents in Food Industry: A Review

تمتلك الزيوت العطرية نشاطية مضادة لكل من الميكروبات والأكسدة في الأنظمة الغذائية. الاختلافات في فعالية الزيوت العطرية يتم إملاؤها من خلال مكونات هذه الزيوت وتراكيز المواد الفعالة ف... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2023 gc ms

Cardamom (<i>Elettaria cardamomum</i> (L.) Maton) Seeds Intake Increases Energy Expenditure and Reduces Fat Mass in Mice by Modulating Neural Circuits That Regulate Adipose Tissue Lipolysis and Mitochondrial Oxidative Metabolism in Liver and Skeletal Muscle.

Cardamom seed (<i>Elettaria cardamomum</i> (L.) Maton; EC) is consumed in several countries worldwide and is considered a nutraceutical spice since it exerts antioxidant, anti-infl... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36835337 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043909 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.