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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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Preparation and stability characterization of flavour ingredients in E-liquids for preclinical assessment of electronic nicotine delivering system products: a case study of 38 flavour ingredients in a single mixture.

E-vapour products generate aerosols typically containing nicotine, flavour ingredients, and aerosol formers (propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine). While many flavour ingredien... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40265589 DOI: 10.1093/jat/bkaf031 Full text on PMC
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Synergistic effects of <i>Lactiplantibacillus plantarum</i> and <i>Acacia mangium</i> leaf tannin extract on the fermentation quality, digestibility, and metabolomic profile of <i>Indigofera</i> silage.

<h4>Background and aim</h4><i>Indigofera zollingeriana</i> is a high-protein tropical legume with potential as a sustainable ruminant feed; however, its ensiling is challenged by r... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41472771 DOI: 10.14202/vetworld.2025.3571-3593 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.