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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.) gc ms

Co-fermentation of non-Saccharomyces yeasts and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum for modifying physicochemical properties to alleviate stickiness and caking issues of jujube powder.

In this study, the intrinsic properties of jujube were modified through co-fermentation with three non-Saccharomyces yeasts and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum to solve the stickines... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 aroma analysis

Aging of Red Wine (<i>cv</i>. Negroamaro) in Mediterranean Areas: Impact of Different Barrels and Apulian Traditional Amphorae on Phenolic Indices, Volatile Composition and Sensory Analysis

This study investigated on the impact of different aging containers on the volatile composition and quality of Negroamaro wine, a key variety from Apulia, Italy. Seven vessel types... 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.