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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2025 aroma analysis

Electroantennogram and Olfactory behavioral responses of <i>Trabala vishnou gigantina</i> (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) to herbivore induced <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> leaf volatiles.

The moth <i>Trabala vishnou gigantina</i> Yang, 1978 (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), a leaf-eating pest, had a severe outbreak in the sea buckthorn, <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> L. (E... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41048395 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.20124 Full text on PMC
2025 aeda

Impact of Membrane Separation Refining on Volatile Organic Compounds of Osmanthus fragrans Absolute Oil Analyzed Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Combined with Odor Activity Value

In order to investigate the difference in aroma quality among Osmanthus fragrans absolute oil and the permeate and retenate obtained from its membrane separation, a total of 66 vol... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 Perhimpunan Ahli Teknologi Pangan Indonesia bekerjasama dengan Departemen Ilmu dan Teknologi Pangan, IPB University Bogor, Indonesia other

Profil Sensori Keripik Kentang Berdasarkan Check-All-That-Apply dan Ideal Profile Method

The snack industry has shown a stable increment for years and still has great potential for further increase. Potato chips rank second in sales volume in the snack industry, with a... Read full abstract on PubMed →

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

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.