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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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2025 gc ms

Deciphering the biocontrol strategies of <i>Trichoderma yunnanense</i> TM10 against <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i> f. sp. <i>cepae,</i> the causal agent of wilt disease in shallots (<i>Allium cepa</i> var. <i>aggregatum</i>).

The fungal genus <i>Trichoderma</i> has demonstrated significant potential for agricultural applications, particularly as a plant growth promoter and biocontrol agent against vario... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41140526 DOI: 10.1016/j.crmicr.2025.100484 Full text on PMC
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Effect of Organic Plant Ingredients on the Growth Performance of European Sea Bass (&lt;i&gt;Dicentrarchus labrax&lt;/i&gt;): Nutritional Efficiency, Fillet Nutritional Indexes, Purchase Intention, and Economic Analysis.

The objective of the present study was to ascertain the effect of diverse organic feeds (25ECO, 30ECO, and 35ECO) containing varying levels of fishmeal (25%, 30%, and 35%) on the g... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40867668 DOI: 10.3390/ani15162339 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.