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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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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2023 Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society pharmacology

An update on the current status and prospects of nitrosation pathways and possible root causes of nitrosamine formation in various pharmaceuticals.

Over the last two years, global regulatory authorities have raised safety concerns on nitrosamine contamination in several drug classes, including angiotensin II receptor antagonis... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36942272 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsps.2022.12.010 Full text on PMC
2023 aroma analysis

Enhancing Phytochemical Compounds, Functional Properties, and Volatile Flavor Profiles of Pomelo (<i>Citrus grandis</i> (L.) Osbeck) Juices from Different Cultivars through Fermentation with <i>Lacticaseibacillus paracasei</i>.

The current study aimed to explore the effects of fermenting five different pomelo cultivars using <i>Lacticaseibacillus paracasei</i> on various physicochemical, phytochemical, an... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38231752 DOI: 10.3390/foods12234278 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.