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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
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Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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Valorizing date seeds through ultrasonication to enhance quality attributes of dough and biscuit: Part 2 - Study on bioactive properties, sensory acceptance, in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and shelf life of biscuits.

Aligning with sustainable food system development, in this study, date seeds derived compounds were utilized as functional ingredient to formulate value-added biscuits. Ultrasound-... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39612753 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2024.107160 Full text on PMC
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Effect of Meal and Whole Larvae of Black Soldier Fly (<i>Hermetia illucens</i>) on the Performance, Blood Lipid Profile, Slaughter Characteristics, Sensory Properties and Fatty Acid Composition of Pheasant (<i>Phasianus colchicus</i> L.) Muscles.

Insect meal can be a valuable component of poultry diets, both during rearing and fattening, as well as for laying hens. Regarding protein feeds, the most commonly used are oil mea... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41227544 DOI: 10.3390/ani15213215 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.