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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.

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Compounds indexed
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Physicochemical, Volatile Compound Profile, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Activities of Northeastern Thai Ethnic Ready-to-Serve Food Pastes Jaew Hon and Gang Om: A Comparative Study of Laboratory and Industrial Production Processes.

Northeastern Thai ethnic foods are celebrated for their health benefits yet remain largely underexplored. This study assessed the antioxidant and cytotoxic properties of two ready-... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40077580 DOI: 10.3390/foods14050876 Full text on PMC
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Biological Activity Evaluation Against <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i>, <i>Fusarium circinatum,</i> and <i>Meloidogyne incognita</i> of Bioactives-Enriched Extracts of <i>Ruta graveolens</i> L.

<i>Ruta graveolens</i> L. has been described as possessing antifungal and nematicidal activity. Among the bioactive compounds present in this plant, alkaloids and furanocoumarins h... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40430411 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30102240 Full text on PMC
2025 other

Scientific opinion as regards the specifications of the food additives acetic, lactic, tartaric, mono- and diacetyltartaric, mixed acetic and tartaric acids esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (E 472a,b,d,e,f).

Acetic, lactic, tartaric, mono- and diacetyltartaric, mixed acetic and tartaric acids esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids (E 472a,b,d,e,f) were re-evaluated in 2020 by... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40791651 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9602 Full text on PMC
2025 other

Efficacy of feed additives obtained from the leaves of &lt;i&gt;Ginkgo biloba&lt;/i&gt; L.: Ginkgo tinctures for all animal species and ginkgo extract for horses, dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs (FEFANA asbl).

Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the efficacy of feed additives obtained from the leaves of <i>Ginkgo biloba</i>... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41103775 DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9682 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.