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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2025 gc ms

Integrated <i>in silico</i>-<i>in vitro</i> and pharmacokinetic profiling of <i>Thymus vulgaris</i>-derived metabolites targeting multidrug resistance pathways in extensively drug-resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> (muks92).

<h4>Background</h4><i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> is a major nosocomial pathogen with extensive drug resistance (XDR) driven by β-lactamases, efflux systems, and biofilm formation.... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41480107 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1680686 Full text on PMC
2025 Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina other

Comparação do perfil químico e aromático de vinhos ‘Sauvignon Blanc’ elaborados em região de altitude de Santa Catarina - Brasil e em Marlborough - Nova Zelândia

The objective of this work was to quantify the chemical compounds and the varietal aroma of Sauvignon Blanc wines produced in the high-altitude (above 900 meter) regions of Santa C... 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.