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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 ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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2025 gc ms

The Essential Oil from the Roots of <i>Valeriana rigida</i> Ruiz & Pav. Growing in the Paramos of Chimborazo (Ecuador): Chemical Analysis, Enantioselective Profile, and Preliminary Biological Activity.

The essential oil (EO) obtained from the roots of <i>Valeriana rigida</i> Ruiz & Pav. (Caprifoliaceae), collected in the moorland region of Chimborazo Province, Ecuador, was analyz... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40219130 DOI: 10.3390/plants14071062 Full text on PMC
2025 other

Integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics unravels the identification of &lt;i&gt;TPS&lt;/i&gt; gene family and functional characterization of a sesquiterpenoid synthesis gene in &lt;i&gt;Curcuma kwangsiensis&lt;/i&gt;.

<h4>Introduction</h4><i>Curcuma kwangsiensis</i> S.G. Lee et C.F. Liang, a member of the <i>Zingiberaceae</i> family, is abundant in sesquiterpenes. However, the sesquiterpene meta... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41415678 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1703946 Full text on PMC
2025 aroma analysis

Applying Check‐All‐That‐Apply to Enhance Napping‐Ultra Flash Profile Correlation Analysis of Volatile Flavor Compounds and Sensory Qualities in Chrysanthemum morifolium (Chuju) Concentrate Processed by Different Methods

In this study, the CATA questionnaire combined with Napping's sensory analysis method was used to conduct sensory analysis on 15 concentrated samples. Then, their volatile flavor c... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.