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
gc ms
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) exiting in urine are potential biomarkers of chronic kidney diseases. Headspace solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) was applied for extraction V...
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2021
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
The aim of study was to compare the biochemical properties affecting the nutritional quality, safety, and aroma of dry-cured products manufactured from valuable meat of rare native...
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PMID: 34359466
DOI: 10.3390/foods10071597
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2021
gc ms
Banana Fusarium wilt disease caused by <i>Fusarium oxyspoum</i> f. sp. <i>cubense</i> (Foc) seriously threatens the banana industry. Foc tropical race 4 (Foc TR4) can infect almost...
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2021
aroma analysis
The high-throughput identification of unknown metabolites in biological samples remains challenging. Most current non-targeted metabolomics studies rely on mass spectrometry, follo...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Cirsium japonicum</i> var. <i>maackii</i> (Maxim.) Matsum. or Korean thistle flower is a herbal plant used to treat tumors in Korean folk remedies, but its essential bioactives...
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2021
other
Endophytic fungi usually establish a symbiotic relationship with the host plant and affect its growth. In order to evaluate the impact of endophytic fungi on the Chinese herbal med...
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2021
gc ms
<h4>Rationale</h4>The aim of this study was to analyze the metabolomics of lung with different host inflammation of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) for the identificatio...
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PMID: 33049802
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8971
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2021
gc ms
Several food contact materials (FCMs) contain non-intentionally added substances (NIAS), and most of the substances that migrate from plastic food packaging are unknown. This revie...
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PMID: 34202594
DOI: 10.3390/polym13132077
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2021
other
Carotenoids and apocarotenoids are diverse classes of compounds found in nature and are important natural pigments, nutraceuticals and flavour/aroma molecules. Improving the qualit...
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2021
Applied Sciences
other
Lactones are volatile organic compounds widely present in foods. These chemicals are applied as flavors and fragrances in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Recentl...
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2021
other
Efficient Lewis-acid-catalyzed direct conversion of aldehydes to 1,2-diketones in the liquid phase was enabled by using newly designed and developed ceria-zirconia-based high-entro...
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2021
gc ms
Abstract This study aimed to compare the volatile compounds of cold-pressed oils obtained from unroasted and roasted chokeberry, raspberry, blackcurrant, and strawberry seeds using...
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2021
pharmacology
Microbial endophytes organize symbiotic relationships with the host plant, and their excretions contain diverse plant beneficial matter such as phytohormones and bioactive compound...
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PMID: 33946942
DOI: 10.3390/cells10051059
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2021
aroma analysis
Fermented meat products have a long history in China. These products exhibit a characteristic unique flavor, compact meat quality, clear color, long shelf life and wide variety and...
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2021
gc ms
The volatile compound 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one (MHO) is an important chemical intermediate and flavor component derived from carotenoid during fruit metabolism, which is important f...
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2021
Insects
aroma analysis
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles constitute the first indicators of insect host presence, and these can affect the foraging behavior of their natural enemies. The density of insec...
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2021
Horticulture research
sensory panel
Breeding crops for improved flavor is challenging due to the high cost of sensory evaluation and the difficulty of connecting sensory experience to chemical composition. The main g...
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2021
other
Flavor is one of the most important factors in attracting consumers and maximizing food quality, and the Maillard reaction (MR) is highly-involved in flavor formation. However, Mai...
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2021
gc ms
The aim of this study was to characterize the phytochemical content as well as the antioxidant ability of the Moroccan species <i>Chamaerops humilis</i> L. Besides crude ethanolic...
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2021
gc ms
The absolute dominant species that infests wild population of Przewalski's horse (Equus przewalskii) is Gasterophilus pecorum, and feces of released Przewalski's horse, a habitat o...
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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.