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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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2023 Journal of the science of food and agriculture gc ms

Dynamics of bacterial community, metabolites profile and physicochemical characteristics during solid-state fermentation of soybean meal and corn mixed substrates inoculated with Bacillus pumilus and Limosilactobacillus fermentum.

BACKGROUND: Solid-state fermentation (SSF) is a general approach for preparing food and feed, which not only improves nutrition but also provides prebiotics and metabolites. Althou... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2023 aeda

Characterization of Key Compounds of Organic Acids and Aroma Volatiles in Fruits of Different <i>Actinidia argute</i> Resources Based on High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Headspace Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS).

<i>Actinidia arguta</i>, known for its distinctive flavor and high nutritional value, has seen an increase in cultivation and variety identification. However, the characterization... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 37835267 DOI: 10.3390/foods12193615 Full text on PMC
2023 Food chemistry aroma analysis

Reduced asynchronism between regenerative cysteine and fragments of deoxyosones promoting formation of sulfur-containing compounds through extra-added xylose and elevated temperature during thermal processing of 2‑threityl-thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid.

The flavor intensity of thermally processed 2‑threityl-thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA) was significantly improved to 1.56 times of that generated from MRPs, but its flavor pr... 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.