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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 pharmacology

Pharmacological and Physicochemical Properties Optimization for Dual-Target Dopamine D<sub>3</sub> (D<sub>3</sub>R) and μ-Opioid (MOR) Receptor Ligands as Potentially Safer Analgesics.

A new generation of dual-target μ opioid receptor (MOR) agonist/dopamine D<sub>3</sub> receptor (D<sub>3</sub>R) antagonist/partial agonists with optimized physicochemical properti... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37467430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00417 Full text on PMC
2023 International journal of environmental research and public health gc ms

Method Development for Detecting Low Level Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) among Workers and Residents from a Carpentry Work Shop in a Palestinian Village.

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are considered a major public health concern in industrial location areas. The presence of exposure to (VOCs) has raised concern regarding the hea... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37174133 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20095613 Full text on PMC
2023 gc ms

Chemical composition and insecticidal activity of essential oils from cultivated and native aromatic plants of Argentina against <i>Carpophilus dimidiatus</i> (Fabricius) (Nitidulidae) and <i>Oryzaephilus mercator</i> (L.) (Silvanidae).

Essential oils from aerial parts of six aromatic plants were analysed by GC-MS. The major compounds identified were <i>γ</i>-terpinene (11.5%), cuminaldehyde (26.6%) and <i>γ</i>-t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.