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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
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2025 gc ms

Evaluation of the use of Terminalia catappa (Almond leaves), Theobroma cacao (cocoa leaves) and Thaumatococcus daniellii (miracle berry leaves) for wrapping different food products- impacts on safety, sensory properties and health benefits

<title>Abstract</title> <p>The aim of this research was to evaluate the effects of traditional leaf packaging materials (Terminalia catappa; Theobroma cacao and Thaumatococcus dan... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica gc ms

[Chemical constituents, biological activity evaluation of Rhododendron tomentosum, and mechanisms of its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-rheumatoid arthritis activities based on network pharmacology and molecular docking technology].

The volatile components of Rhododendron tomentosum were analyzed using GC-MS technology. Combined with non-volatile components previously identified by the research group and chemi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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.