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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.

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Compounds indexed
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2026 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology other

Integrating enzymatic hydrolysis and nanoparticle catalysis for sustainable bioethanol production from pumpkin and dragon fruit pomace by non-conventional yeasts based fermentation prosesses

were found to be 0.40 g/g and 0.89 g/L.h, respectively, in these conditions. These results demonstrate that integrating nanoparticle-assisted hydrolysis and fermentation is an effe... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2026 Chemistry & biodiversity pharmacology

Antioxidant and Antifungal Effects of Lavandula stoechas Aqueous Extract Against Aspergillus niger and Fusarium oxysporum as a Potential Natural Preservative and Crop Protection Agent in the Agrifood Sector.

The antioxidant and antifungal activities of (Lavandula stoechas) L. stoechas aqueous extract were studied to examine their potential application against food and crop spoilage. To... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41958073 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.71190 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.