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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.

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Compounds indexed
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2023 gc ms

Nutritional Value, Volatile Components, Functional Metabolites, and Antibacterial and Cytotoxic Activities of Different Parts of <i>Millettia speciosa</i> Champ., a Medicinal and Edible Plant with Potential for Development.

Highly nutritious traditional plants which are rich in bioactive substances are attracting increasing attention. In this study, the nutritional value, chemical composition, biologi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38005797 DOI: 10.3390/plants12223900 Full text on PMC
2023 Arquivos de Ciências da Saúde da UNIPAR pharmacology

DRIMYS (CATAIA, CANELO, QUIEBRA-MUELAS): UMA REVISÃO LITERÁRIA SOBRE SUA FITOQUÍMICA, ATIVIDADES BIOLÓGICAS, FARMACOLÓGICAS E TOXICOLÓGICAS

Drimys é um dos gêneros mais conhecidos da família botânica Winteraceae. As espécies que compõe este gênero têm sido amplamente utilizadas na medicina popular latino americana para... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2023 gc ms

Analysis of the Chemical Composition and Evaluation of the Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Anticoagulant, and Antidiabetic Properties of <i>Pistacia lentiscus</i> from Boulemane as a Natural Nutraceutical Preservative.

<i>Pistacia lentiscus</i> L. has traditionally been employed as a diuretic and stimulant in the treatment of hypertension. Our interest centered on analyzing the chemical profile o... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37760813 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11092372 Full text on PMC
2023 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) other

New Random Aromatic/Aliphatic Copolymers of 2,5-Furandicarboxylic and Camphoric Acids with Tunable Mechanical Properties and Exceptional Gas Barrier Capability for Sustainable Mono-Layered Food Packaging.

High molecular weight, fully biobased random copolymers of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (2,5-FDCA) containing different amounts of (1R, 3S)-(+)-Camphoric Acid (CA) have been successf... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37241804 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28104056 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.