CompKitchen · UMAP Projection
The Flavor Universe
in Two Dimensions
Every point is one of 450 ingredients plotted by shared volatile compounds. Close together = similar molecular signature. Copper lines mark the surprising pairings — molecular matches between different categories where cuisines haven't yet dared to cross.
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450
Ingredients plotted
2619
Compound dimensions ⓘ
36
Cross-category bridges
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How to read this map
Each dot is an ingredient, coloured by food group. Nearer dots share more aroma chemistry. The axes have no units — only the distance between dots means anything.
Copper line: a strong molecular match between two different food groups.
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Built via UMAP on IDF-weighted compound vectors (cosine metric, n_neighbors=35, min_dist=0.45, spread=1.7).
Paired with the compound heatmap for a second view of the same space.