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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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Antifungal Volatile Organic Compounds from <i>Talaromyces purpureogenus</i> CEF642<sup>N</sup>: Insights from One Strain Many Compounds (OSMAC) Strategy for Controlling <i>Verticillium dahliae</i> in Cotton.

Verticillium wilt is a devastating soil-borne disease that significantly impacts cotton production, necessitating the development the effective biofumigants for its control. In thi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40422667 DOI: 10.3390/jof11050332 Full text on PMC
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Eco-friendly fabrication of Ag/Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> and Ag/Co nanocomposites <i>via Anabasis articulata</i>: GC-MS, phytochemical analysis, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and insecticidal activities.

This research reported a novel and sustainable green synthesis of Ag/Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> and Ag/Co NCs using <i>Anabasis articulata</i> extract. To the best of our knowledg... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41122149 DOI: 10.1039/d5ra06599b Full text on PMC

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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.