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
Passion fruit peel powder (PFPP) was used to supplement the probiotic labneh to increase the activity of Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) during production and storage. Labneh wa...
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PMID: 35681414
DOI: 10.3390/foods11111663
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2022
Acta scientiarum polonorum. Technologia alimentaria
sensory panel
BACKGROUND: Herbs and spices are natural ingredients that have been widely used not just as food flavouring but also for their health attributes. The antioxidant, antimicrobial and...
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2022
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Proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) has been developed for the direct, high sensitivity and high time resolution monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Al...
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2022
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Cheese is characterized by a rich and complex microbiota that plays a vital role during both production and ripening, contributing significantly to the safety, quality, and sensory...
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PMID: 35053920
DOI: 10.3390/foods11020188
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2022
sensory panel
Electronic tongue (e-tongue) and electronic nose (e-nose) have been widely used to determine food products' taste, aroma, and flavor profiles. Several researchers and industries ha...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
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This reprint is dedicated to new insights into food fermentation. The goal of this reprint was to broaden the current knowledge on advanced approaches concerning food fermentation,...
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2022
Microbiological research
gc ms
Tepache is a native beverage from Mexico, which is usually elaborated with pineapple shells, brown cane sugar and is fermented naturally. Beneficial health effects have been attrib...
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
aeda
Mead is an alcoholic beverage based on bee honey, which can be prepared in different variations such as modified honey-water compositions, the addition of spices, and the use of di...
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2022
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]
gc ms
In recent years, ample research has focused on applying wild (especially non-Saccharomyces) yeasts in producing alcoholic beverages. Common characteristics of wild yeast strains in...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
other
In the food and beverage industries, implementing novel methods using digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, robotics, computer vision, machine learnin...
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2022
Foods
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Kombucha is a fermented tea with a long history of production and consumption. It has been gaining popularity thanks to its refreshing taste and assumed beneficial properties. The...
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2022
LWT
gc ms
Yongchun Monascus vinegar is one of famous Chinese vinegar types because of its unique flavor and special bioactivity. Aging process has been regarded as crucial for enhancing the...
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2022
LWT
other
LA/P/0140/2020Aiming to gain insights into the impact of storage conditions on the chemical profile of beer samples, changes on the relative amount of several chemical classes of c...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
Pixian Doubanjiang (PXDBJ) is a typical Asian condiment with a unique spicy flavor produced by traditional spontaneous solid-state fermentation. In this study, flavor and the micro...
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2022
gc ms
Discrimination of floral origin and its complemented aroma features is important for honey authentication. In this study, a comprehensive analysis of five unifloral honeys was anal...
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2022
other
The flavour network-based analysis of food pairing was applied to the sub-cuisines from Northeast India to examine the food pairing behaviour in terms of the co-occurrence of ingre...
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2022
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<i>Piper cubeba</i> L.f. (Piperaceae), known as cubeb, is a popular traditional herbal medicine used for the treatment of many diseases, especially digestive and respiratory disord...
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2022
pharmacology
The genus <i>Iris</i> from the Iridaceae family consists of more than 262 recognized species. It is an ornamental and medicinal plant widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere....
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2022
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The Mediterranean diet proved to be one of the healthiest diets in the word. It has several beneficial effects and it prevents many non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, cardi...
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2022
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Cell wall degrading enzymes (chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase) were produced by solid-state fermentation (SSF) using the fungus <i>Trichoderma harzianum</i> and different agro-industr...
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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.