Peer-Reviewed Research Database
The science behind the engine
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.
2022
TheScientificWorldJournal
pharmacology
Pigeon pea (PP) [Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth] plays an important role in preserving poor smallholders' major source of income in the tropics and subtropics by improving food and feed s...
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PMID: 35110974
DOI: 10.1155/2022/4873008
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2022
gc ms
In the Islamic and Jewish religions, there are various restrictions that should be followed in order for food products to be acceptable. Some food items like pork or dog meat are b...
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2022
other
The habanero pepper (<i>Capsicum chinense</i>) is an increasingly important spice and vegetable crop worldwide because of its high capsaicin content and pungent flavor. Diets suppl...
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PMID: 36077322
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23179924
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2022
pharmacology
<i>Capsicum</i> spp. fruits (CFs) are a basic ingredient in the diet and have been used as active ingredients in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food products, due to their antio...
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2022
Journal of dairy science
other
Peppers (Capsicum spp.) contain capsaicin, an organic compound with a group of alkaloids that has shown thermoregulation properties in humans and mice, and may influence glucose an...
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2022
Bioresource technology
other
Citrus fruit waste (CW) is a useful biomass and its valorization into fuels and biochemicals has received much attention. For economic feasibility, increased efficiency of the prec...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of controlled atmosphere (CA) storage at a low oxygen partial pressure (pO2; 2 kPa of O2) and low pO2 associated with high pCO2 (2 kPa O2 +...
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2022
'Elsevier BV'
other
Peas as an alternative protein source have attracted a great deal of interest from the food industry and consumers in recent years. However, pea proteins usually do not taste neutr...
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2022
gc ms
Vegetal proteins are of high interest for their many positive aspects, but their 'beany' off-flavor is still limiting the consumer's acceptance. The aim of this work was to investi...
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2022
aeda
(1) Background: Italia is a seeded grape variety widely cultivated in the Aegean Region in Turkey, whereas Bronx Seedless is a seedless grape variety, preferred by consumers due to...
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2022
gc ms
Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae plays an important role in the traditional winemaking industry. In this study, the correlation of microbial community and aroma compound in the...
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PMID: 35741923
DOI: 10.3390/foods11121725
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2022
gc ms
The aim of this study was to perform an exhaustive analysis of the aroma active compounds in pawpaw fruit using gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) on capillary GC columns with...
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2022
LWT
aroma analysis
Varietal thiols are important contributors to the aroma profile of a wide range of beverages including beer. A methodology for the simultaneous extraction and subsequent analysis o...
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2022
'Elsevier BV'
threshold study
Thanks to their low odor detection thresholds, free varietal thiols (VTs) play a key role in the primary aroma of wines, to which they confer an intense scent reminiscent of box tr...
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2022
Foods
sensory panel
This study investigated the volatile composition and aromatic features of passion fruit wines using a combination of gas chromatography–quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC-qMS), gas c...
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2022
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
other
Liqueur is an alcoholic beverage composed of a mixture of water, alcohol, sugar and substances that add flavour and aroma. Wild passion fruit is a product with good agricultural an...
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2022
aroma analysis
Active alginate-based coatings with quercetin glycoside and complexes of hydroxyapatite/quercetin-glycoside were used to study the shelf life of fresh cut papaya stored at 6 °C. Hy...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
other
Plant essential oils (PEOs) are hydrophobic liquids that contain volatile chemical components that are derived from various plant parts. They are among the most important plant nat...
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2022
'Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology - University of Zagreb'
other
Research background. In industrial ayran production, milk is diluted to the desired protein content (2% (m/V)) prior to fermentation by yogurt starter cultures by partial replaceme...
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2022
pharmacology
Brassicaceae family includes an important group of plants of great scientific interest, e.g., the model plant <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>, and of economic interest, such as crops o...
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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.