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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

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Compounds indexed
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2022 Ying yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of applied ecology gc ms

[Effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature on volatile halogenated organic compound content in soils of Schima superba and Cunninghamia lanceolata seedlings].

Global changes caused by the increases of atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature have important effects on soil biogeochemical processes. The synthesis and release of volati... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 35524529 DOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202203.001
2022 sensory panel

Uncover the Flavor Code of Roasted Sesame for Sesame Flavor Baijiu: Advance on the Revelation of Aroma Compounds in Sesame Flavor Baijiu by Means of Modern Separation Technology and Molecular Sensory Evaluation.

Baijiu occupies an important position in the food industry of China and is deeply recognized as the national liquor of China. According to the flavor characteristics, Baijiu is art... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 35407087 DOI: 10.3390/foods11070998 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.