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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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The synergistic effect of <i>Thymus vulgaris</i> essential oil and carvacrol with imipenem against carbapenem-resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>: <i>in vitro</i>, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics studies.

<h4>Background</h4>Carbapenem-resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> (CRAB) is one of the most predominant causative agents of nosocomial infections, especially in the intensive... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40474976 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1582102 Full text on PMC
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Separation and Identification of Non-Volatile Sour and Bitter Substances in Amomum villosum L. by Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry and Electronic Tongue Analysis, as Well as Their In Vitro Anti-Tumor Activity

Amomum villosum L. is a perennial herbaceous belonging to the ginger family. Due to its unique aroma, it is widely used in alcoholic beverages and food processing. Unfortunately, i... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 other

Chemical analysis, repellent, larvicidal, and oviposition deterrent activities of plant essential oils against &lt;i&gt;Aedes aegypti&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Anopheles gambiae&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Culex quinquefasciatus&lt;/i&gt;.

Plant-based essential oils have gained attention as a natural alternative for controlling mosquitoes due to their repellent, larvicidal and oviposition deterrent properties. We tes... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40444174 DOI: 10.3389/finsc.2025.1582669 Full text on PMC
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Influence of silver nanoparticles on the in vitro growth, phenolic profile, antioxidant potential, enzyme inhibition, and essential oil composition of Clinopodium nepeta subsp. spruneri (Boiss.) Bartolucci &amp; F. Conti.

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are increasingly recognized as active elicitors capable of modulating plant growth and metabolism. This study evaluated the effects of AgNPs (1.0-50.0... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41193628 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-22586-y 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.