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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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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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New Insights into the Synergistic Bioactivities of <i>Zingiber officinale</i> (Rosc.) and <i>Humulus lupulus</i> (L.) Essential Oils: Targeting Tyrosinase Inhibition and Antioxidant Mechanisms.

Essential oils (EOs) constitute intricate mixtures of volatile phytochemicals that have garnered significant attention due to their multifaceted biological effects. Notably, the pr... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40807468 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30153294 Full text on PMC
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Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of <i>Thrips hawaiiensis</i> (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) to the Floral Volatiles of the Horticultural Plant <i>Magnolia grandiflora</i> (Magnoliales: Magnoliaceae).

Volatile cues are important in the host detection and discrimination of phytophagous insects, allowing them to find suitable hosts. Here, the electroantennography (EAG) and behavio... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40559063 DOI: 10.3390/insects16060633 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.