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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

The science behind the engine

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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Original research
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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
627,022
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2025 pharmacology

Phytotherapeutic Analysis of Chloroform-Based Fractions of <i>Alstonia scholaris</i> and <i>Wrightia tinctoria</i> Extracts Reveals Potent Anti-Psoriatic Activity: An In Vitro and In Vivo Study.

<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Psoriasis, a prevalent dermatological disorder, poses therapeutic challenges due to limited effective treatments or adverse side-effects. Traditional... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40143083 DOI: 10.3390/ph18030304 Full text on PMC
2025 pharmacology

Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) Decreases IL-6 and Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthase 2 mRNA Expression and IL-6 Protein Release, While Increasing Resolvin D1 and CXCL8 mRNA Expression and Protein Release in BovineEndometrial Cells.

The endometrial immune response in postpartum cows is key to maintaining uterine health and preventing inflammatory diseases such as metritis and endometritis. Appropriate manageme... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40941340 DOI: 10.3390/ani15172545 Full text on PMC

All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.

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.