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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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2025 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) aroma analysis

Exploring the impact mechanisms on different mechanized airing approaches during second round heap fermentation of sauce-flavor Baijiu: From physicochemical parameters, microbial diversity to volatile flavor compounds.

The airing process of sauce-flavor Baijiu is a critical operation that serves the functions of cooling, homogenizing, and facilitating microbial proliferation and metabolism. Compr... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) aroma analysis

Differential characteristics of meat flavor compounds, colonic microbiome and metabolome between Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire pigs with high and low intramuscular fat of longissimus dorsi muscles.

Pork flavor has received widespread attention from consumers and producers, but the flavor differences and microbial differences in pigs with different intramuscular fat (IMF) cont... 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.