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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2022 gc ms

Exogenous Calcium Suppresses the Oviposition Choices of <i>Frankliniella occidentalis</i> (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) and Promotes the Attraction of <i>Orius similis</i> (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) by Altering Volatile Blend Emissions in Kidney Bean Plants.

<i>Frankliniella occidentalis</i> is a destructive pest of horticultural plants, while <i>Orius similis</i> is a natural enemy of thrips. It has been demonstrated that exogenous ca... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36555037 DOI: 10.3390/insects13121127 Full text on PMC
2022 Food Microbiology other

Effects of autochthonous Kluyveromyces lactis and commercial Enterococcus faecium adjunct cultures on the volatile profile and the sensory characteristics of short-ripened acid-curd Cebreiro cheese

Elaboráronse catro lotes de queixo tipo Cebreiro por duplicado a partir de leite pasterizado. Un lote control foi fabricado só cun cultivo iniciador comercial tipo O. Os outros tr... 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.