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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 Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica aeda

[Analysis of volatile component changes in wine-processing of Rhei Radix et Rhizoma based on headspace-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry combined with chemometrics].

Based on volatile components, the dilution ratio of yellow rice wine to water in wine-processed Rhei Radix et Rhizoma was optimized, and the types and relative content changes of v... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41814820 DOI: 10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20251110.301
2026 aroma analysis

A three-dimensional-simulation-assistant optimization of heat transfer and the influence of hot water treatment on postharvest quality, volatile flavor compounds and cuticular wax metabolisms of three cultivar mangoes.

A three-dimensional-simulation-assistant optimization of heat transfer in three cultivars ('Jinhuang', 'Guifei', and 'Tainong') of mango fruit with distinct sizes during postharves... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41844102 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2026.148852
2026 Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology aroma analysis

The (-)-endo-fenchol synthases from three species of lavender: predicted structural models and multilevel regulation of gene expression.

UNLABELLED: Fenchol, a key aromatic compound in lavender essential oils (EOs), is produced by the enzyme fenchol synthase (FENS). However, the functional mechanism of FENS is not w... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41675608 DOI: 10.1007/s12298-025-01690-3 Full text on PMC

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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.