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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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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 gc ms

Comparative Evaluation of <i>β</i>-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes with Eugenol, Eucalyptol, and Clove Essential Oil: Characterisation and Antimicrobial Activity Assessment for Pharmaceutical Applications.

Clove essential oil (<i>Eugenia caryophyllata</i> essential oil, ECEO) is known for its high eugenol content and notable antimicrobial properties. However, the volatility and insta... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40733061 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics17070852 Full text on PMC
2025 aroma analysis

Reviewing the Mechanisms of the Interaction of Characteristic Aroma Compounds of Longjing Tea with S-curve, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation: With a Focus on (+)-(1R,2S)-Methyl Epijasmonate and β-Ionone as Examples.

The S-curve method, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) were used to explore the interaction between the aroma compounds of Longjing tea and receptors. The r... 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.