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
other
Virginia mountain mint (<i>Pycnanthemum virginianum</i>) is a peppermint-flavored aromatic herb of the Lamiaceae and is mainly used for culinary, medicinal, aromatic, and ornamenta...
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2021
other
The Pauson-Khand reaction (PKR) is a formal [2 + 2 + 1] cycloaddition involving an alkyne, an alkene and carbon monoxide mediated by a hexacarbonyldicobaltalkyne complex to yield c...
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PMID: 35493249
DOI: 10.1039/d1ra05673e
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2021
gc ms
Chemical control of the maize weevil (<i>Sitophilus zeamais</i>) has been ineffective and presents serious collateral damage. Among plant-derived insecticides, essential oils (EOs)...
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2021
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Monoterpenoids are the main components of plant essential oils and the active components of some traditional Chinese medicinal herbs like <i>Mentha haplocalyx</i> Briq<i>., Nepeta...
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2021
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An increasing interest in novel wine productions is focused on non-Saccharomyces yeasts due to their potential in improving sensory profiles. Although Kluyveromyces marxianus has b...
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2021
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<i>Chiliadenus lopadusanus</i> Brullo is an Asteraceae plant species endemic to Lampedusa island, the largest island of the Pelage archipelago, Italy. The organic extract of its wh...
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2021
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Despite a large number of synthesis procedures for pyrazoles known today, those directly employing primary amines as substrates are rare. Herein, we report an original method for t...
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2021
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Agarwood is a highly valuable fragrant wood of <i>Aquilaria</i> spp. (Thymelaeaceae) which has been widely utilized in traditional medicine, religious rites, and cultural activitie...
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2021
gc ms
This study aimed at an experimental design of response surface methodology (RSM) in the optimization of the dominant volatile fraction of Greek thyme honey using solid-phase microe...
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2021
sensory panel
In the Valpolicella area (Verona, Italy) <i>Vitis vinifera</i> cv. Corvina is the main grape variety used to produce Amarone wine. Before starting the winemaking process, the Corvi...
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2021
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
pharmacology
Identification of chemical markers in food additives and dietary supplements is crucial for quantitative assessment and standardization of their quality and efficacy. Arthrospira p...
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2021
aroma analysis
Citrus fiber/blackberry gels (CBg) can be used for the preparation of various bakery products as well as confectioneries. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence...
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2021
aroma analysis
The food industry is continuously developing ingredients, processing methods and packaging materials to improve the quality of fruit products. The aim of this work was to study the...
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PMID: 33530336
DOI: 10.3390/foods10020243
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2021
Journal of ethnopharmacology
gc ms
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Albizia lebbeck and Albizia zygia are used in Nigeria, South Africa and other countries for the treatment of flu, fever, pain, epilepsy, and inflamm...
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2021
gc ms
Abstract Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) significantly impact food aroma. In this work, Electron nose (E-nose), headspace solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spec...
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
sensory panel
Volatile compounds are responsible for driving the aroma of wine. Because of their low perception thresholds, norisoprenoids may play an important role in wine aroma. Studies have...
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2021
American journal of public health
other
In 2019, San Francisco, California, prohibited the sale of electronic cigarettes lacking US Food and Drug Administration authorization. JUUL then promoted a ballot initiative (Prop...
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2021
gc ms
The sugar, organic acid and aroma Components are very important quality characteristics of fruits. In this study, sugars, organic acids and volatile substances in five varieties of...
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2021
Molecules
other
Green rooibos extract (GRE), shown to improve hyperglycemia and HDL/LDL blood
cholesterol, has potential as a nutraceutical beverage ingredient. The main bioactive compound of
th...
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2021
other
Nowadays, the techniques for the analysis of glycosidic precursors in grapes involve changes in the glycoside structure or it is necessary the use of very expensive analytical tech...
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PMID: 33477839
DOI: 10.3390/foods10010191
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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.