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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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In Vitro and Field Effectiveness of the Combination of Four <i>Trichoderma</i> spp. Against <i>Sclerotinia sclerotiorum</i> and Its Impact on Potato (<i>Solanum tuberosum</i> L.) Crop Production.

White mold (<i>Sclerotinia sclerotiorum</i>) reduces potato yield and quality in Sinaloa, Mexico. This study first evaluated the in vitro efficacy of <i>Trichoderma azevedoi</i>, <... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41515101 DOI: 10.3390/plants15010156 Full text on PMC
2026 International journal of biological macromolecules pharmacology

Development of antimicrobial egg coatings for extending the shelf life of eggs using cassava starch blended with sodium alginate, liquid paraffin wax, and ZnO nanoparticles.

An antimicrobial nanocomposite coating was developed to extend egg shelf life in high-temperature environments by combining cassava starch, glycerol, sodium alginate (Alg), liquid... 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.