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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.

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Compounds indexed
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2025 Frontiers in Microbiology other

Effects of different lactic acid bacteria fermentation on active substances and functional characteristics of honeysuckle liquid: analysis of metabolites of honeysuckle liquid based on metabolomics

In order to study the effects of lactic acid bacteria on the active substances and functions of honeysuckle, metabolomics was used to analyze the differential metabolites of honeys... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 pharmacology

In Vivo Assessment of Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Aqueous Extracts of <i>Nepeta nuda</i> ssp. <i>nuda</i> L. in Experimental Model of Peripheral Inflammation in Male Long Evans Rats.

<b>Background</b>: Recently various plants have attracted considerable scientific interest as potential therapeutic alternatives to known drugs used in anti-inflammatory therapy. T... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41465877 DOI: 10.3390/life15121938 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.