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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2023 gc ms

Acetylcholine Esterase Inhibitory Effect, Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, Metabolomic Profiling, and an In Silico Study of Non-Polar Extract of The Halotolerant Marine Fungus <i>Penicillium chrysogenum</i> MZ945518.

Major health issues, such as the rise in oxidative stress, incidences of Alzheimer's disease, and infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes, have prompted researchers to l... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36985342 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11030769 Full text on PMC
2023 other

Efficacy of <i>Acacia nilotica, Eucalyptus camaldulensis,</i> and <i>Salix safsafs</i> on the mortality and development of two vector-borne mosquito species, <i>Culex pipiens and Aedes aegypti</i>, in the laboratory and field.

Mosquitoes are one of the most lethal animals in the world and transmit many dangerous human pathogens, causing millions of deaths each year. The search for modern and better mosqu... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37251815 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16378 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.