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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
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2023 gc ms

Application and Effect of <i>Pediococcus pentosaceus</i> and <i>Lactiplantibacillus plantarum</i> as Starter Cultures on Bacterial Communities and Volatile Flavor Compounds of <i>Zhayu</i>, a Chinese Traditional Fermented Fish Product.

<i>Zhayu</i> is a type of traditional fermented fish product in China that is made through the fermentation of salted fish with a mixture of cereals and spices. Inoculation ferment... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37174306 DOI: 10.3390/foods12091768 Full text on PMC
2023 gc ms

Determining the changes in metabolites of Dendrobium officinale juice fermented with starter cultures containing Saccharomycopsis fibuligera FBKL2.8DCJS1 and Lactobacillus paracasei FBKL1.3028 through untargeted metabolomics.

<h4>Background</h4>The present study aimed to investigate the changes in volatile components and metabolites of Dendrobium officinale (D. officinale) juice fermented with starter c... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36918762 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-023-02807-y 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.