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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

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2026 Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy other

A novel smartphone-assisted fluorescence probe based on benzothiazole-derived Schiff base enables accurate detection of Cu2+/Cu+ and H2S and its portable applications.

Copper ions and hydrogen sulfide pollution exert severe adverse effects on plants and other organisms. Consequently, the rapid, real-time, and accurate monitoring of Cu2+/Cu+ and H... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41950856 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2026.127823
2026 aeda

Extensive "Heart-Cut" 2D GC-MS/Olfactometry, Complementary to Aroma Extract Dilution Analysis, Odor Activity Value Evaluation, and Aroma Recombination Study, to Assess the Contribution of "Five-Grain" Derived Compounds to Baijiu Aroma.

Grains are widely used for the fermentation of spirits, including baijiu. Wuliangye is one of the most renowned baijiu brands, fermented from a blend of five grains: sorghum, wheat... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41589319 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5c07407
2026 pharmacology

Antibacterial Activity of Extract, Fractions, and Compounds from <em>Termitomyces clypeatus</em> R. Heim (Lyophyllaceae) Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Overexpressing Efflux Pumps

<h4>Background: </h4> /Objectives: Microbial resistance to antibiotics has become a major global public health problem, threatening the effectiveness of current therapeutic strateg... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.20944/preprints202603.1668.v1 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202603.1668.v1

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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.