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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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2023 gc ms

A Comparative Study on Chemical Compositions and Biological Activities of Four Amazonian Ecuador Essential Oils: <i>Curcuma longa</i> L. (Zingiberaceae), <i>Cymbopogon citratus</i> (DC.) Stapf, (Poaceae), <i>Ocimum campechianum</i> Mill. (Lamiaceae), and <i>Zingiber officinale</i> Roscoe (Zingiberaceae).

Essential oils (EOs) and their vapour phase of <i>Curcuma longa</i> (Zingiberaceae), <i>Cymbopogon citratus</i> (Poaceae), <i>Ocimum campechianum</i> (Lamiaceae), and <i>Zingiber o... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36671378 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12010177 Full text on PMC
2023 other

Phytochemical Composition and Pharmacological Efficacy Evaluation of <i>Calamintha nepeta</i>, <i>Calamintha sylvatica</i>, <i>Lavandula austroapennina</i> and <i>Mentha piperita</i> Essential Oils for the Control of Honeybee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) Varroosis.

<i>Varroa destructor</i> is currently considered the parasite that causes the greatest damage and economic losses to honeybee farms. Its presence is often associated with that of v... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 38200800 DOI: 10.3390/ani14010069 Full text on PMC
2023 Plants (Basel, Switzerland) gc ms

Chemical Composition and In Vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antiproliferative Effects of Volatile Oils Hydrodistilled from Onobrychis carduchorum C.C. Towns., a Kurdish Traditional Plant.

The volatile oils hydrodistilled from the aerial parts and roots of O. carduchorum C.C Towns. (Fabaceae) have been chemically characterized for the first time. A total of 43 consti... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37631224 DOI: 10.3390/plants12163013 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.