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.
2021
sensory panel
This study was conducted with the aim of developing fruit spirits by utilizing old (autochthonous) apple and pear cultivars that can be attractive to both consumers and producers....
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PMID: 34205976
DOI: 10.3390/foods10061258
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2021
Journal of texture studies
sensory panel
Drinking tastes and lubrication properties of Chinese rice wine (CRW) under different heating temperatures were studied by tribology tests, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC...
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2021
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
Sauce-flavor baijiu is a representative of Chinese traditional fermented baijiu using grains as the raw materials through the co-fermentation of microorganisms. The whole manufactu...
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2021
Saudi journal of biological sciences
gc ms
Natural extracts have been of very high interest since ancient time due to their enormous medicinal use and researcher's attention have further gone up recently to explore their ph...
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2021
aroma analysis
The application of exogenous jasmonate can stimulate the production of ethylene, carotenoids, and aroma compounds and accelerate fruit ripening. These alterations improve fruit qua...
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PMID: 33923604
DOI: 10.3390/foods10040877
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2021
gc ms
Decline disease causes severe damage to bayberry. However, the cause of this disease remains unclear. Interestingly, our previous studies found that the disease severity is related...
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
In this study, the botanical origin, total flavonoid and phenolic content, antioxidant activity, phenolic profile and fatty acid composition of mixed bee pollen loads collected in...
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2021
Frontiers in nutrition
pharmacology
Moringa (Moringa oleifera) seed oil is an edible vegetable oil rich in unsaturated fatty acids. In this study, the supercritical CO2 fluid extraction method was employed to obtain...
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2021
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
pharmacology
Microalgal products are an emerging class of food, feed, and nutraceuticals. They include dewatered or dried biomass, isolated pigments, and extracted fat. The oil, protein, and an...
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PMID: 34359496
DOI: 10.3390/foods10071626
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2021
Frontiers in nutrition
other
The objectives of this study were to evaluate changes in profiles of odd- and branched-chain fatty acids (OBCFA), including pentadecanoic acid (C15:0), 13-methyltetradecanoic acid...
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2021
gc ms
The capability of pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC-MS) for the direct analysis of endotoxins is demonstrated in this research article using the lipopolysacchar...
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2021
pharmacology
<i>Xanthoceras sorbifolium</i> Bunge (Sapindaceae) is a native Chinese plant with promising applications as a biofuel feedstock and a source of novel drugs. Historical records and...
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2021
Elsevier
aroma analysis
peer-reviewedCorrelating volatile compounds with the sensory attributes of whole milk powder (WMP) is fundamental for appreciating the effect of lipid oxidation (LO) on sensory per...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Galleria mellonella</i> is a pest of the honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i> L.) and causes significant losses to the beekeeping industry; therefore, experiments are needed to deco...
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2021
Molecules
other
Taint in grapes and wine following vineyard exposure to bushfire smoke continues to challenge the financial viability of grape and wine producers worldwide. In response, researcher...
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2021
other
The cyst nematodes <i>Heterodera schachtii</i> and <i>Heterodera trifolii</i>, whose major hosts are sugar beet and clover, respectively, damage a broad range of plants, resulting...
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PMID: 34638828
DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910488
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2021
gc ms
Strawberry is a very popular fruit with a special taste, color, and nutritional value. Anthracnose caused by <i>Colletotrichum fragariae</i> severely limits fruit shelf life during...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Eysenhardtia platycarpa</i> (<i>Fabaceae</i>) is a medicinal plant used in Mexico. Biotechnological studies of its use are lacking. The objective of this work was to establish a...
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2021
sensory panel
The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential application of probiotics in the development of novel functional foods based on black garlic. The single-factor analysis (...
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2021
other
Due to their intrinsic physical properties, which includes being able to perform as volatile liquids at room and biological temperatures, fragrance ingredients/intermediates make i...
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PMID: 34136010
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.17.90
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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.