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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
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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 aroma analysis

Enhancing physicochemical, aromatic and sensory characteristics in coffee pulp wine through co-culture of indigenous non-<i>Saccharomyces</i> and <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>.

To unlock the potential of indigenous non-<i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> and develop novel starters for enhancing flavor compounds profile and quality of coffee pulp wine (CPW), t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41488115 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.103379 Full text on PMC
2025 gc ms

The chemical composition of the essential oils of two Mediterranean species of Convolvulaceae: &lt;i&gt;Convolvulus althaeoides&lt;/i&gt; subsp. &lt;i&gt;tenuissimus&lt;/i&gt; collected in Sicily (Italy) and &lt;i&gt;Calystegia silvatica&lt;/i&gt; collected in Algeria.

<i>Convolvulus</i> L. and <i>Calystegia</i> R.Br. are two closely related genera of the Convolvulaceae family distributed in Asia, Mediterranean, Macaronesia, East Africa, and Arab... 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.