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.
2021
'MDPI AG'
other
Virgin olive oil (VOO) has unique chemical characteristics among all other vegetable oils which are of paramount importance for human health. VOO constituents are also responsible...
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2021
Scientific reports
other
The Mediterranean diet, considered one of the healthiest in the world, is characterized in part by the major source of its fat, which is extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). Among the he...
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2021
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
To clarify the discrepancy in characteristic flavor and bacteria composition of 10 fresh fermented rice noodles from southern China, the volatile and bacteria composition were dete...
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2021
pharmacology
Betel nut, the fruit of <i>Areca catechu</i> L, has a long medical history in Southeast Asia. It is native to Malaysia and is cultivated and processed extensively in subtropical re...
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PMID: 34457017
DOI: 10.1155/2021/1808081
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2021
Genes & nutrition
other
BACKGROUND: Fermented foods are ubiquitous in human diets and often lauded for their sensory, nutritious, and health-promoting qualities. However, precise associations between the...
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2021
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been used for various food fermentations for thousands of years. Recently, LAB are receiving increased attention due to their great potential as pro...
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PMID: 34574257
DOI: 10.3390/foods10092148
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2021
Current environmental health reports
other
PURPOSE: Parabens are chemicals containing alkyl-esters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, which give them antimicrobial, antifungal, and preservative properties. Propylparaben (PP) is one...
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2021
pharmacology
<i>Artemisia capillaris</i> Thunb. (<i>A.</i><i>capillaris</i><i>,</i> Yin-Chen in Chinese) is a traditional medicinal herb with a wide spectrum of pharmacological properties rangi...
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2021
gc ms
In the present work, lignin-like fractions were isolated from several ancestral plants -including moss (<i>Hypnum cupressiforme</i> and <i>Polytrichum commune</i>), lycophyte (<i>S...
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2021
sensory panel
The present study aimed to chemically and sensorially characterize hop samples, cv Cascade, grown in two different Italian regions (Latium and Tuscany) as well as their derived bee...
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PMID: 34574195
DOI: 10.3390/foods10092085
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Biomass valorization to building block chemicals in food and pharmaceutical industries has tremendously gained attention. To produce monophenolic compounds from palm empty fruit bu...
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2021
aroma analysis
Diagnosis of bacterial infections until today mostly relies on conventional microbiological methods. The resulting long turnaround times can lead to delayed initiation of adequate...
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2021
gc ms
Excessive home cage aggression often results in severe injury and subsequent premature euthanasia of male laboratory mice. Aggression can be reduced by transferring used nesting ma...
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2021
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
gc ms
Brown-rot fungi are particularly suitable for the sustainable and cost-efficient biotechnological production of natural flavors. In this study, Wolfiporia cocos was employed for th...
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2021
Medical mycology journal
other
We postulated that disinfection of viable Trichophyton species in shoes would help reduce the number of patients with tinea pedis in Japan and that this might be accomplished safel...
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2021
other
Tejate is a Mexican traditional beverage elaborated with nixtamalized maize (<i>Zea mays</i> L.), cocoa (<i>Theobroma cacao</i> L.) beans, cacao flowers (<i>Quararibea funebris</i>...
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2021
gc ms
Lugana and Verdicchio are two Italian white wines with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) label. These two wine types are produced in different regions using the same grape va...
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2021
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Fungi growing on wood cause deterioration of stored food materials or discoloration of the wood itself, and the search for new and safe bioagents is recently nee...
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PMID: 33799760
DOI: 10.3390/ma14061361
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2021
Journal of advanced research
other
INTRODUCTION: Neomenthol, a cyclic monoterpenoid, is a stereoisomer of menthol present in the essential oil of Mentha spp. It is used in food as a flavoring agent, in cosmetics and...
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2021
gc ms
The present study is concerned with the fabrication of the bifunctional <i>Plectranthus cylindraceus</i> oil/TiO<sub>2</sub>/polyethylene glycol polymeric film for antibacterial an...
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PMID: 34754300
DOI: 10.1155/2021/5562206
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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.