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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2023 aroma analysis

Evaluation of Roasting and Grilling Effects on Chemical Composition, Volatile Profiles, and Toxicity of Stink Bugs (<i>Tessaratoma papillosa</i>): Implications for Utilization as Functional Food Ingredients.

The stink bug (<i>Tessaratoma papillosa</i>) is a highly popular edible insect in Thai traditional cuisine, but little research has investigated the effects of heat treatment on th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37628053 DOI: 10.3390/foods12163053 Full text on PMC
2023 Frontiers in immunology pharmacology

Potential bioactivities via anticancer, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory properties of cultured mycelial enriched β-D-glucan polysaccharides from a novel fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis OS8.

BACKGROUND: Ophiocordyceps sinensis is well-known worldwide as a traditional medicine. An alternative natural source of O. sinensis is provided by mycelial cultivation. However, th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37114040 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150287 Full text on PMC
2023 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) pharmacology

The Garlic Tree of Borneo, Scorodocarpus borneensis (Baill.) Becc. (Olacaceae): Potential Utilization in Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, and Functional Cosmetic Industries.

Scorodocarpus borneensis (Baill.) Becc. is attracting increased attention as a potential commercial medicinal plant product in Southeast Asia. This review summarizes the current kn... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37570687 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155717 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.