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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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
other
Volatile cues can play a significant role in the location and discrimination of food resources by insects. Dung beetles have been reported to discriminate among dung types produced...
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2022
International journal of food microbiology
other
Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is one of the five major healthy foods for humans and is recognized as the "king of the world fruit", which has attracted great interest in the phytogeni...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
Diacylglycerol (DAG) is commonly known as one of the precursors for 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol esters (3-MCPDE) and glycidyl esters (GE) formation. Besides, 3-MCPDE and GE are he...
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2022
aroma analysis
This study attempted to improve the polyphenol and volatile aroma compound contents in Nanfeng tangerine wines using non-<i>Saccharomyces</i> yeast and <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae<...
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PMID: 35205881
DOI: 10.3390/jof8020128
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
pharmacology
The aim of this study was to determine the variability of several chemical compounds and the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of eight types of berries harvested from two d...
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2022
sensory panel
HS-SPME/GC-MS and aroma descriptive analysis were used to gain insights into the volatile and sensory details of 99 red wine samples collected from four varieties in five regions....
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2022
Food chemistry
gc ms
Chemical fingerprinting of phenolic compounds present in Finnish berry wines was performed using a direct-infusion Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-I...
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2022
aroma analysis
The overall aroma is an important factor of the sensory quality of fruit wines, which attributed to hundreds of volatile compounds. However, the qualitative determination of trace...
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2022
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
aroma analysis
Bergamot essential oil (BO) shows biological activities and is widely used as a flavoring for food products; however, its application in foods is limited because of the low stabili...
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2022
pharmacology
This current study review provides a brief review of a natural bee product known as propolis and its relevance toward combating SARS-CoV viruses. Propolis has been utilized in medi...
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2022
aroma analysis
The effects of lactic acid fermentation using Lactiplantibacillus plantarum 75 (L75), Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides 56 (L56) and its combination (L56 + 75) on the quality, bioact...
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PMID: 35267315
DOI: 10.3390/foods11050682
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2022
Nutrition reviews
pharmacology
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) manifests with systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, and gut dysbiosis, resulting in metabolic disorders and elevated rates of cardiovascular diseas...
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2022
gc ms
Beer is a complex product due to its raw materials (malt, hops, yeast, and water). Beer production can also use other matters as adjuncts. This study investigated the influence of...
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2022
gc ms
Even beer being the most consumed alcoholic beverage around the world, there is not enough information generated for craft beers produced in Latin America, for either volatile prof...
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2022
other
Meat and meat products are perishable in nature, and easily susceptible to microbial contamination and chemical deterioration. This not only results in an increased risk to health...
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2022
aroma analysis
This study was accomplished by comparing the oxidative stability of (0.1%) Syzygium aromaticum extract (SAE) and (0.02%) butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)-added cooked ground beef wit...
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2022
sensory panel
<i>Flammulina Velutipes</i> (<i>F. velutipes</i>) is widely planted all over the world and is rich in nutrients, which is of great benefit to the human body. However, the research...
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2022
gc ms
Satay as Indonesian food is made from several pieces of meat stabbed with a bamboo stick and grilled. Satay has a unique aroma because of the diversity in total organic volatile co...
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2022
other
The available evidence on dogs' scent preferences is quite limited. The purpose of this study was to verify the canine response to selected odors that may also be preferred by huma...
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PMID: 35739826
DOI: 10.3390/ani12121488
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2022
gc ms
As a vegetable crop, sponge gourd is widely consumed worldwide due to its health promoting and nutraceutical value. This study describes genetics of an aromatic genotype VRSG-7-17...
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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.