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
Environmental research
gc ms
Samples of ambient aerosols were collected at an urban site of eastern central India from monsoon to summer 2016-17 for the characterization of biogenic secondary organic aerosols...
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2021
Mycorrhiza
other
The ectomycorrhizospheric habitat contains a diverse pool of organisms, including the host plant, mycorrhizal fungi, and other rhizospheric microorganisms. Different signaling mole...
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2021
other
Within the Open Science project entitled 'Botanic Garden, factory of molecules', a multidisciplinary study approach was applied to Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth., at the Ghirardi...
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PMID: 33742746
DOI: 10.1111/plb.13254
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2021
other
Polarity-reversal catalysts enable otherwise sluggish or completely ineffective reactions which are characterized by unfavorable polar effects between radicals and substrates. We h...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Cistus ladanifer</i> L. is a plant widely used in folk medicine to treat various illnesses. This study aims to evaluate the effect of the plant flourishing time harvest on the c...
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2021
gc ms
Accumulated plastic waste in the environment is a serious problem that poses an ecological threat. Plastic waste has been reduced by initiating and applying different alternative m...
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PMID: 34436133
DOI: 10.3390/jof7080594
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2021
aroma analysis
Plants in the flowering stage need to ensure reproduction by protecting themselves from attack and by preserving interactions with mutualist pollinators. When different plant mutua...
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2021
gc ms
The integration of green natural chemical resources in agricultural, industrial, and pharmaceutical applications allures researchers and scientistic worldwide. <i>Cleome amblyocarp...
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2021
other
Schinus terebinthifolia is a species native to different ecoregions in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The plant is listed on the National Relation of Medicinal Plants and recommend...
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2021
gc ms
Fungal infections remain a major health concern with aromatic plants and their metabolites standing out as promising antifungal agents. The present study aims to assess, for the fi...
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2021
Molecular nutrition & food research
other
SCOPE: This study aims to investigate the effect of tryptophan sources on tryptophan catabolism by gut microbiota and the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) activation. METHODS AND RE...
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2021
Journal of advanced research
other
BACKGROUND: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is now recognized as a vital endogenous gasotransmitter with a variety of biological functions in different systems. Recently, studies have incre...
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2021
aroma analysis
The enzymatic conversion of l‐methionine (l‐Met) into volatile organic sulfur‐containing compounds (VOSCs) plays an important role in developing the characteristic aroma of foods....
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2021
gc ms
Globally, village chicken is popular and is known as a premium meat with a higher price. Food fraud can occur by selling other chicken breeds at a premium price in local markets. T...
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PMID: 34574284
DOI: 10.3390/foods10092174
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2021
pharmacology
<h4>Background</h4>The bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was the classic inducer to establish many inflammatory disease models, especially multiple organ injury. Evidenc...
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PMID: 33986608
DOI: 10.2147/jir.s306789
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2021
Amino acids
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L-valine is an essential branched-chain amino acid that cannot be synthesized by the human body and has a wide range of applications in food, medicine and feed. Market demand has s...
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2021
World journal of microbiology & biotechnology
other
β-Alanine (3-aminopropionic acid) is the only naturally occurring β-type amino acid. Although it is not incorporated into proteins, it has important physiological functions in the...
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2021
pharmacology
The stem of <i>Picrasma quassioides</i> (PQ) was recorded as a prominent traditional Chinese medicine, Kumu, which was effective for microbial infection, inflammation, fever, and d...
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2021
gc ms
Gentianae Radix et Rhizoma is a medical plant that is widely cultivated in China, North Korea, Japan, and Russia, and gentiopicroside is one of its major active compounds. In this...
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2021
EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority
other
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on t...
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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.