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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.

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Chemical Composition and Phytotoxic and Antibiofilm Activity of the Essential Oils of <i>Eucalyptus bicostata</i>, <i>E. gigantea</i>, <i>E. intertexta</i>, <i>E. obliqua</i>, <i>E. pauciflora</i> and <i>E. tereticornis</i>.

<i>Eucalyptus</i> species are characterized by their richness in essential oils (EOs) with a great diversity of biological activities. This study reports the chemical composition a... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36432746 DOI: 10.3390/plants11223017 Full text on PMC
2022 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) gc ms

Volatile Organic Compound Profiles of Cystoseira corniculata (Turner) Zanardini 1841 and Ericaria amentacea (C.Agardh) Molinari and Guiry 2020 (ex. Cystoseira amentacea (C.Agardh) Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1832).

The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of fresh (FrCC) and air-dried (DrCC) Cystoseria corniculata and fresh (FrEA) and air-dried (DrEA) Ericaria amentacea from the Adriatic Sea wer... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36296722 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27207131 Full text on PMC
2022 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) gc ms

Foodomics for agroecology: Differentiation of volatile profile in mint (Mentha × gracilis Sole) from permaculture, organic and conventional agricultural systems using HS-SPME/GC-MS.

In the present study, foodomics approach was employed to investigate changes in the metabolism from the volatile terpenoids profile of mint(Mentha × gracillis Sole)from conventiona... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2022 College of Science for Women - University of Baghdad sensory panel

Evaluation of Turkish Delight Prepared With Pigments And Essential Oils Extracted From Clementine (Citrus Clementine) Peels As Natural Antioxidants

مستخلص قشر الكلمينتين غني بالمركبات الفعالة كالزيوت الطيارة والصبغات النشطة بيولوجيًا. وقد يؤدى خلط الملبن بمستحلص قشور الكلمينتين الى ان يصبح أكثر فائدة من الناحية  الصحية بالاضاف... 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.