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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
959
Ingredients cited ⓘ
5,240
Compounds indexed
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Antioxidant Activity and Phenolic Compounds in Medicinal Plants: A Comparison of Organic and Conventional <i>Mentha piperita</i>, <i>Melissa officinalis</i>, <i>Salvia officinalis</i>, and <i>Urtica dioica</i>.

The study was conducted to determine whether the origin of medicinal plants (conventional vs. organic cultivation) may affect the content of selected bioactive ingredients. This wo... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41471833 DOI: 10.3390/molecules30244812 Full text on PMC
2025 Journal of agricultural and food chemistry sensory panel

Identification and Taste Presentation Characteristics of Umami Peptides from Hybrid Pork Duroc × (Gaoligongshan × Saba) Based on Peptidomics, Machine Learning, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation.

The study identified novel umami peptides from hybrid pork Duroc × (Gaoligongshan × Saba) (DGS) and explored their interaction mechanisms with T1R1/T1R3. Liquid chromatography-tand... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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.