Compound-level flavor data, with the receipts

Substitute for a discontinued aroma chemical

A flavor house loses access to an ingredient (regulatory, supply, cost). The engine returns ingredients with the closest compound profile — ranked by molecular overlap, not popularity.

The workflow: Reformulating around a supply, cost, or regulatory shock — screen candidates by compound overlap before committing bench time.

And the cost: candidates are ranked on flavour fit and priced from a curated book where every row carries its source, date and unit. A price we cannot stand behind comes back unknown, with a reason — never an estimate, never a neighbour’s price, never zero. See the cost endpoint →

curl "https://compkitchen.com/api/sub?ingredient=butter&top_n=5"

# IDF-weighted Jaccard over shared VOLATILES only:
# → milk (55)  cream cheese (32)  cheese (52)
#   cheddar cheese (46)  swiss cheese (41)
# Each result carries shared_compound_count + the compounds themselves.

Patent landscape for a target compound

Researching prior art for a novel formulation. The SureChEMBL cross-reference exposes which patents cite a given compound — useful surface scan before deeper attorney review.

The workflow: Prior-art surface scan — narrow the compound list before a deeper attorney review.

GET /api/compound/vanillin
{
  "compound": "vanillin",
  "pubchem_cid": 1183,
  "surechembl_patents": 2476,        // patents citing this CID
  "key_aroma_in": ["vanilla", "chocolate", ...],
  "papers_cited": 47
}

OAV-driven sensory panel design

Building a descriptor panel for a product? Pull the top compounds by OAV in the target ingredient — those are the ones panelists actually perceive. Filter out the “present but below threshold” noise.

The workflow: Descriptor-panel design — rank by OAV so the panel tests what is actually perceivable.

import requests
r = requests.get("https://compkitchen.com/api/pair",
    params={"ingredients": "cinnamon", "top_n": 1})
compounds = r.json()["results"][0]["compound_details"]
key_aromas = [c for c in compounds if c.get("max_oav", 0) > 1]
# → cinnamaldehyde, eugenol, linalool, caryophyllene