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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.

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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2023 other

Screening and characterization of biocontrol bacteria isolated from <i>Ageratum conyzoides</i> against <i>Collectotrichum fructicola</i> causing Chinese plum (<i>Prunus salicina</i> Lindl.) anthracnose.

Chinese plum (<i>Prunus salicina</i> Lindl.) is a nutritionally and economically important stone fruit widely grown around the world. Anthracnose, caused by <i>Collectotrichum</i>... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38130944 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1296755 Full text on PMC
2023 gc ms

Characterization of volatile organic compounds with anti-atherosclerosis effects in <i>Allium macrostemon</i> Bge. and <i>Allium chinense</i> G. Don by head space solid phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.

<h4>Introduction</h4><i>Allium macrostemon</i> Bge. (AMB) and <i>Allium chinense</i> G. Don (ACGD) are both edible <i>Allium</i> vegetables and named officinal Xiebai (or Allii Mac... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36819690 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.996675 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.