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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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Featured Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0

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 ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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1979 Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine threshold study

Formaldehyde toxicity.

The presence of formaldehyde in biologically active concentrations in several occupational and environmental atmospheres has created concern about the hazards of exposure to these... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 110285
1979 other

Dihydro-γ-pyrones in Tobacco SmokeIdentification of 2,3-Dihydro-5-hydroxy-6-methyl-4H-one in the Smoke of Cigarettes from Burley, Virginia and Oriental Tobacco/Dihydro-γ-pyrone im Tabakrauch: Nachweis von 2,3-Dihydro-5-hydroxy-6-methyl-4H-pyran-4-on in Rauch von Cigaretten aus Burley-, Virginia- und

Abstract 2,3-Dihydro-5-hydroxy-6-methyl-4H-pyran-one [I] has been identified as a new cigarette smoke constituent. The concentration of substance I and of the homologous compound 2... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.