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Peer-Reviewed Research Database

The science behind the engine

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 pharmacology

Impact of ultrasonication, ozonation, and their combination on the preservation of novel clean-label functional drink of strawberry-cantaloupe incorporated with Spirulina platensis and orange peel extracts.

Consumer demand for sustainable, nutrient-rich, and clean-label beverages is rapidly increasing, which is driving the need for innovative preservation techniques for such sensitive... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40628130 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2025.107455 Full text on PMC
2025 gc ms

Assessing the Insecticidal Performance of <i>Commiphora myrrha</i> Essential Oil Against <i>Prostephanus truncatus</i> and <i>Sitophilus zeamais</i> Using a Metabolomic Approach.

Botanical insecticides have gained interest due to a rising demand for environmentally friendly pest control methods for stored-product protection. The insecticidal effectiveness o... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41095174 DOI: 10.3390/plants14193031 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.