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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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Phytochemical Profiling, Molecular Docking, ADMET Analysis of <i>Zingiber Officinale</i> Peel Extract for the Biogenic Synthesis of ZnO and Fe-Doped ZnO Nanoparticles with Antibacterial and Photocatalytic Potential.

Industrial dye effluents are the predominant source of water pollution, while the increasing prevalence of bacterial infections poses a serious public health threat. Nanoparticles... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41502624 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c09902 Full text on PMC
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Metal-Free Catalytic Synthesis of <i>N</i>‑Allylaminocyclohex-2-enone via α‑Regioselective Substitution of Morita-Baylis-Hillman Adducts: Characterization, Biological Activities, In Silico ADMET, and Molecular Docking Studies.

In the pursuit of novel, safe, and biologically active compounds, we report the synthesis of a new series of <i>N</i>-allylaminocyclohex-2-enones <b>3</b>(<b>a-r</b>) via the α-reg... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41048820 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c03009 Full text on PMC

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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.