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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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Physicochemical, Phytochemical and Sensory Properties of Myrobalan (<i>Prunus cerasifera</i> L.) Fruit Leather: Effects of Sugar Concentration and Enrichment with Blackcurrant and Bilberry Pomace Powders.

Myrobalan plum is a widespread but underutilized fruit, rich in dietary fiber, organic acids and bioactive compounds. The present research was carried out to develop myrobalan plum... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41153993 DOI: 10.3390/foods14203457 Full text on PMC
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Integration of multisensory technology and untargeted metabolomics to investigate the impact of geographic regions on the volatile and non-volatile metabolites of goji berry wine.

This study integrates sensory analysis, untargeted metabolomics, and multivariate statistical methods to comprehensively characterize the flavor differences of goji berry wines fro... Read full abstract on PubMed →

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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.