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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

The science behind the engine

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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Original research
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.

44,648
Papers indexed
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2025 aroma analysis

Innovative Fermentation Approach Employing <i>Lachancea thermotolerans</i> for the Selective Production of High-Acidity Wines, Designed for Blending with Low-Acidity Counterparts to Achieve Chemically and Organoleptically Balanced Final Compositions.

The most notable effects of climate change on wine production are higher alcohol levels, lower acidity and changes to the regions suitable for growing grapes. One solution to acidi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40870686 DOI: 10.3390/foods14162773 Full text on PMC
2025 gc ms

Green Ultrasound-Assisted Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction Coupled to GC-MS for Simultaneous Determination of Lipid-Peroxidation- and Maillard-Derived Carbonyl Compounds in Plant-Based Beverages.

Carbonyl compounds generated through lipid peroxidation and Maillard-type reactions are relevant markers of food quality and safety due to their potential toxicity and prevalence i... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41425313 DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.5c00133 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.