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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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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
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2026 gc ms

Integrated GC-MS and UPLC-Q-Orbitrap MS untargeted metabolomics for the comprehensive identification of metabolites and characterization of metabolic pathways in key tissues of <i>Cinnamomum cassia</i>.

<i>Cinnamomum cassia</i>, a commercially valuable aromatic medicinal plant, is widely used in the food, pharmaceutical and perfume industries. Here, we characterizd the metabolites... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41853597 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2026.103716 Full text on PMC
2026 other

Application of kefir-isolated &lt;i&gt;Lactiplantibacillus plantarum&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Lacticaseibacillus paracasei&lt;/i&gt; to obtain a cashew-based fermented beverage with enhanced anti-inflammatory properties.

The increasing demand for healthy non-conventional probiotic foods has positioned plant-based milk analogs as viable alternatives to traditional dairy products. In these matrices,... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41883803 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1763414 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.