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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

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2025 International journal of biological macromolecules pharmacology

Development and evaluation of pH-sensitive Euryale ferox starch-based films containing nano-SiO2 and Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis) extract for freshness monitoring of chicken breast meat.

In this study, smart films of EFS, EFS-SiO2 and EFS-SiO2-CRE were successfully developed by using Euryale ferox starch (EFS), nano-SiO2 and Chinese rose extract (CRE). The Chinese... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39706441 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.138959
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Characterizing and decoding the effects of co-culture fermentation on dark tea infusion flavor development: elucidating microbial succession and metabolic dynamics mediated by <i>Eurotium cristatum</i> and water kefir.

Water kefir (a probiotic-rich culture) and <i>Eurotium cristatum</i> (a key fungus in Fu brick tea) were co-fermented with dark tea infusion to investigate dynamic changes in volat... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40980277 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102876 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.