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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 ⓘ
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Compounds indexed
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Chemical Profiling, Sensory Qualities, and Bioactivities of Essential Oils Obtained from <i>Aloysia citrodora</i> and <i>Bursera graveolens</i> Ecuadorian Plants Against the Mosquito <i>Aedes albopictus</i> (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae).

The mosquito <i>Aedes albopictus</i> is a vector of several harmful viruses, necessitating the development of safer and more sustainable repellents than DEET. This study evaluated... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40003832 DOI: 10.3390/insects16020202 Full text on PMC
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The Correlation Between Microbial and Physicochemical Properties of Beef Thigh Meat and Particle Size, Polydispersity Index, and Zeta Potential After Treating With Different Concentrations of Sodium Alginate Nanoparticles Containing Lemon Verbena Plant Leaf Essential Oil.

In the present study, the effect of sodium alginate nanoparticles (SANPs) combined with <i>lemon verbena</i> plant leaf essential oil (LVEOs) (concentrations of 0.25%, 0.5%, and 1%... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41179366 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.71126 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.