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

Simultaneous Hydrodistillation of Healthy <i>Cedrus atlantica</i> Manetti and Infected by <i>Trametes pini</i> and <i>Ungulina officinalis</i>: Effect on Antibacterial Activity Utilizing a Mixture-Design Method.

The Atlas cedar belongs to the Pinaceae family of trees and can be found in a crucial resinous mountain forest in Morocco that spans 133,000 hectares. This endemic species is value... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37692238 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c03555 Full text on PMC
2023 Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology other

Toward combined photobiological-photochemical formation of kerosene-type biofuels: which small 1,3-diene photodimerizes most efficiently?

A transition from fossil- to bio-based hydrocarbon fuels is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; yet, traditional biomass cultivation for biofuel production competes with f... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37101106 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-023-00418-0 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.