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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 pharmacology

Comparative Analysis of Mafura Butter Oils from <i>Trichilia emetica</i> and <i>Trichilia dregeana</i> Extracted by Screw-Press from Seeds Collected in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa.

<i>Trichilia emetica</i> and <i>T. dregeana</i> butter oils are gaining recognition in the cosmeceutical industry, yet comparative data on their yields and bioactive composition re... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41095211 DOI: 10.3390/plants14193071 Full text on PMC
2025 gc ms

"Hyphae Intertwined, Biomolecules Co-Born"-New Polyketides Induction by Co-Culture of the Mangrove Endophytic Fungus &lt;i&gt;Phomopsis asparagi&lt;/i&gt; DHS-48 and &lt;i&gt;Pestalotiopsis&lt;/i&gt; sp. HHL-101 at Both Volatile and Non-Volatile Levels.

The co-culture technique, mimicking natural microbial interactions, has proven to be successful at activating silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) to produce novel metabolites... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41440886 DOI: 10.3390/md23120452 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.