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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

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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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Application of response surface methodology for obtaining fermented extract of <i>Sanguisorba officinalis</i> L. herb with high antioxidant activity, polyphenols, and lactic acid content: analysis of the content and skin permeation of selected phenolic acids.

Fermented plant extracts are becoming increasingly popular as active ingredients in cosmetics and pharmaceutical preparations applied topically to the skin. One of the most popular... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41255864 DOI: 10.1039/d5ra06662j Full text on PMC
2025 Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica other

[Mechanism of L-perilla alcohol in intervening hypoxic pulmonary hypertension based on network pharmacology and experimental verification].

The mechanism of L-perilla alcohol(L-POH) in intervening hypoxic pulmonary hypertension(HPAH) was discussed based on network pharmacology, and experimental verification. The active... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39929662 DOI: 10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20240802.705

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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.