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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

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44,648
Papers indexed
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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Nanoporous [Ho<sub>2</sub>(CO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>7</sub>(H<sub>2</sub>O)<sub>2</sub>]-organic frameworks for excellent catalytic performance on the cycloaddition of CO<sub>2</sub> into epoxides and the deacetalization-Knoevenagel condensation.

Designing nanoporous lanthanide-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as robust heterogeneous catalysts has received a lot of interest in recent years. Herein, we successfully cons... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40443688 DOI: 10.1039/d5ra02269j Full text on PMC
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Flavor profiling and optimization of large yellow croaker (<i>Larimichthys crocea</i>) in recirculating aquaculture systems: Effects of exercise intensity assessed by advanced analytical techniques.

Exercise training is important for improving muscle flavor in RAS-farmed fish, but its effects on the muscle flavor of <i>Larimichthys crocea</i> remain unclear. This study investi... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40686903 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102767 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.