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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.

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2022 Journal of agricultural and food chemistry aroma analysis

Formation Priority of Pyrazines and 2-Acetylthiazole Dependent on the Added Cysteine and Fragments of Deoxyosones during the Thermal Process of the Glycine-Ribose Amadori Compound.

In this study, it was found that extra-added cysteine (Cys) became involved in volatile compound formation during the Maillard reaction of the glycine-ribose Amadori rearrangement... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2022 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) other

Impact of pea protein-inulin conjugates prepared via the Maillard reaction using a combination of ultrasound and pH-shift treatments on physical and oxidative stability of algae oil emulsions.

Algal oil is an aquatic plant source of polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which may exhibit health benefits when consumed in sufficiently high qua... 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.