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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 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) gc ms

Chemical Composition and Evaluation of Insecticidal Activity of Calendula incana subsp. maritima and Laserpitium siler subsp. siculum Essential Oils against Stored Products Pests.

The problems of the environment and human health related to the use of synthetic and broad-spectrum insecticides have increasingly motivated scientific research on different altern... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 35163853 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27030588 Full text on PMC
2022 gc ms

Using of Essential Oils and Plant Extracts against <i>Pseudomonas savastanoi</i> pv. <i>glycinea</i> and <i>Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens</i> pv. <i>flaccumfaciens</i> on Soybean.

The bacteria <i>Pseudomonas savastanoi</i> pv. <i>glycinea</i> (Coerper, 1919; Gardan et al., 1992) (Psg) and <i>Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens</i> pv. <i>flaccumfaciens</i> (Hedges... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 36365442 DOI: 10.3390/plants11212989 Full text on PMC

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

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.