RecipeDB

RecipeDB provides a structured database of 118,171 global recipes integrating ingredient-level flavor, nutritional, and health annotations for culinary and nutrition research.

Key Features:

• Dataset composition: Contains 118,171 unique recipes using 20,262 ingredients compiled from six continents, 26 geocultural regions, and 74 countries.
• Cooking technique annotations: Annotates 268 distinct cooking techniques, including heat application, boiling, simmering, and baking.
• Ingredient–flavor linkage: Links each ingredient to its corresponding flavor molecules via FlavorDB to enable sensory analysis.
• Nutritional annotation: Provides recipe-level nutritional information sourced from the US Department of Agriculture.
• Health associations: Connects ingredients and recipes with empirical health data derived from MEDLINE through DietRx to support diet–disease investigations.
• Multimodal integration: Integrates culinary data with flavor profiles, nutritional content, and health implications for combined analyses.

Scientific Applications:

• Flavor and sensory analysis: Characterize flavor profiles and ingredient–molecule relationships using FlavorDB linkages.
• Nutritional assessment: Quantify and compare dietary value of recipes using USDA-derived nutritional annotations.
• Diet–disease research: Investigate associations between dietary patterns and health outcomes using MEDLINE-derived evidence via DietRx.
• Cooking-method effects: Study how 268 cooking techniques affect ingredient composition, nutritional content, and sensory properties.
• Cross-cultural comparisons: Compare culinary practices and nutritional profiles across six continents, 26 geocultural regions, and 74 countries.
• Ingredient combination studies: Analyze co-occurrence and combinations of ingredients in relation to flavor and health outcomes.

Methodology:

Recipes and metadata were compiled across global cuisines; ingredients are linked to flavor molecules via FlavorDB, nutritional values are sourced from the US Department of Agriculture, and health associations are derived from MEDLINE through DietRx.