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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

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44,648
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2023 other

Optimization of in vitro and in vivo antifungal effects of trehalose coating included <i>Artemisia sieberi</i> essential oil on mulberry (<i>Morus alba</i> var. <i>nigra</i>) fruits using the hybrid RSM-GRA method.

Mulberry is prone to microbial contamination due to mechanical damage during the harvesting. This study aimed to determine, and optimize fruit microbial loads, and in vitro and in... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37123072 DOI: 10.1007/s10068-022-01236-3 Full text on PMC
2023 other

Insecticidal and Detoxification Enzyme Inhibition Activities of Essential Oils for the Control of Pulse Beetle, <i>Callosobruchus maculatus</i> (F.) and <i>Callosobruchus chinensis</i> (L.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae).

Pulse beetle is the most harmful pest attacking stored grains and affecting quality and marketability. Continuous use of chemical-based pesticides against pulse beetle led to the d... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36677552 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28020492 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.