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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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2025 Environmental research pharmacology

Green synthesis of chitosan-stabilized iron oxide nanoparticles using Christia vespertilionis extract for sustainable nano-priming of Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis and Spinacia oleracea seeds.

Agricultural productivity worldwide is increasingly challenged by environmental stresses driven by climate change and rapid population growth. Enhancing seed germination and seedli... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 gc ms

Cultivation technology optimization and identification of secondary metabolites from elm oyster mushroom <i>Hypsizygus ulmarius</i> (Bull.) Redhead (Agaricomycetes) through GC-MS metabolomic profiling from India.

<i>Hypsizygus ulmarius</i>, a novel oyster mushroom species, offers potential scope due to its low-cost production, high biological efficiency, and notable nutritional, medicinal,... Read full abstract on PubMed →

2025 other

Enhancing oxidative stability and sensory properties of ostrich meat using &lt;i&gt;Malva neglecta&lt;/i&gt; mucilage nanocomposite coating loaded with &lt;i&gt;Myrtus communis&lt;/i&gt; essential oil during refrigeration.

Ostrich meat has a favorable nutritional profile but is susceptible to oxidative deterioration due to its high prooxidants. This study aimed to assess the effects of edible coating... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40276235 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102455 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.