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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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Ameliorative Effects of Ethyl-Acetate Extract of <i>Bidens pilosa</i> on Oxidative Stress and Reproductive Impairment in Bisphenol A-Exposed Male Mice: Insight from In-silico, Invitro and In-vivo Studies.

<h4>Background</h4>Bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, is known to induce oxidative stress and disrupt male reproductive function. This study evaluated the ame... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41551225 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.166336.2 Full text on PMC
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In-vitro and bioinformatic studies of bioactive compounds from Oceanimonas sp. JM-AZM31 and Lysinibacillus fusiformis JM-AZM37 of sponge-associated marine bacteria from a mangrove habitat in Southeast Sulawesi.

The ongoing quest for novel therapeutic agents has directed attention toward bioactive compounds derived from sponge-associated bacteria. This study focuses on sponge symbiont bact... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40854657 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgeb.2025.100538 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.