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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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2025 Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry gc ms

Determination of volatile organic compounds released by Trichoderma species and plant endophytic fungi using a needle-type extraction device and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

This study proposes a method for the extraction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) generated by Trichoderma species and plant endophytic fungi. In this method, generated VOCs are... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40304881 DOI: 10.1007/s44211-025-00783-z Full text on PMC
2025 gc ms

TiO<sub>2</sub> and CaCO<sub>3</sub> Microparticles Produced in Aqueous Extracts from <i>Satureja montana:</i> Synthesis, Characterization, and Preliminary Antimicrobial Test.

The possibility of modifying the surface chemistry of materials and synthetizing inorganic particles in natural aqueous extracts of plants (avoiding calcination), opens the doors t... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41157156 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30204138 Full text on PMC
2025 The Journal of Supercritical Fluids other

Exploring the potential of deep eutectic systems for the preservation of the chemical profile and antibacterial potential of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) supercritical CO₂ extracts

Funding Information: This work received support and help from FCT/MCTES (LA/P/0008/2020 DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0008/2020, UIDP/50006/2020 DOI 10.54499/UIDP/50006/2020, and UIDB/50006/20... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.1016/j.supflu.2024.106499 DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2024.106499

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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.