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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 aeda

Phytochemical inhibition of quorum sensing and biofilm formation by <i>Paederia foetida</i> Linn. against multidrug-resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>: An integrated <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in silico</i> investigation.

<h4>Background and aim</h4><i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> is a multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen notorious for its biofilm formation and persistence in clinical and veterinary set... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41064837 DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2025.2181-2193 Full text on PMC
2025 Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) pharmacology

Supercritical CO2 Extraction of Oleoresin from Peruvian Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe): Extraction Yield, Polyphenol Content, Antioxidant Capacity, Chemical Analysis and Storage Stability.

In this study, we performed supercritical CO2 extraction of oleoresin from Peruvian ginger, focusing on the extraction yield, total polyphenol content, antioxidant capacity, and co... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40076238 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30051013 Full text on PMC
2025 Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica other

[Improvement of oxidative stability of volatile oil components of Acorus tatarinowii based on supramolecular structure Pickering emulsion].

This study addresses the oxidative stability bottleneck of TCM preparations containing volatile oil components by innovatively constructing a Pickering emulsion system based on &qu... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41508257 DOI: 10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20250913.301

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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.