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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

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Study of <i>Lavandula dentata</i>, <i>Salvia rosmarinus</i>, and <i>Cymbopogon citratus</i> essential oils profile and antifungal activity of their mixture against the gray mold <i>Botrytis cinerea</i>.

In this study, we investigated the chemical profile essential oils (EOs) extracted from <i>Cymbopogon citratus</i>, <i>Salvia rosmarinus</i>, and <i>Lavandula dentata</i>, as well... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41281336 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1694585 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.