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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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2022 other

Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, and Antibacterial Properties of an <i>Achillea millefolium</i> L. Extract and Its Fractions Obtained by Supercritical Anti-Solvent Fractionation against <i>Helicobacter pylori</i>.

The main objective of this work is to evaluate the potential utility of an <i>Achillea millefolium</i> extract (yarrow extract, YE) in the control of <i>H. pylori</i> infection. Th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36290572 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11101849 Full text on PMC
2022 gc ms

<i>In vivo</i> Antiphytoviral Activity of Essential Oils and Hydrosols From <i>Origanum vulgare</i>, <i>Thymus vulgaris</i>, and <i>Rosmarinus officinalis</i> to Control Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus and Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus in <i>Cucurbita pepo</i> L.

In the last decades, the interest in biological activity of natural compounds has been growing. In plant protection, essential oils have been reported to exhibit antiviral, antimyc... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 35547120 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.840893 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.