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
<h4>Background</h4>Melanoma and breast cancers are two common cancers worldwide. Due to the side effects of chemotherapy drugs and the occurring resistance against them, the develo...
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2021
gc ms
The Lianhua Qingwen (LHQW) capsule is a popular traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of viral respiratory diseases. In particular, it has been recently prescribed to trea...
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2021
gc ms
The application of essential oils in food and pharmaceutical sectors face several challenges due to their sensitivity to oxidation process. Additionally, the biosynthesis of nanome...
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2021
'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'
other
Thymol and carvacrol are phenolic monoterpenes found in thyme, oregano, and several other species of the Lamiaceae. Long valued for their smell and taste, these substances also hav...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Aegopodium podagraria</i> L. (goutweed), a member of the <i>Apiaceae</i> family, is a common perennial plant found all around the world that has been used in folk medicine since...
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PMID: 34959734
DOI: 10.3390/ph14121334
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Teas and various herbal teas are well-known beverages and are commonly consumed around the world. In this study, we focused on kuromoji tea. Kuromoji is a deciduous shrub of the La...
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2021
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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Melaleuca is one of the genera of the Myrtaceae family enriched in tea tree oil (TTO). Tea tree oils of Melaleuca bracteata and Melaleuca alternifolia are of prime importance and h...
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2021
gc ms
The present work describes the use of Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) for the bio-guided isolation of repellent active volatile compounds from essential oils. Five essen...
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2021
Insects
gc ms
The current study was designed to investigate the insecticide role of volatile constituents produced from cell suspensions of T. vulgaris and O. basilicum against R. ferrugineus. C...
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2021
Journal of food biochemistry
aroma analysis
The extract from Debaryomyces hansenii L1-1-fermented Flos Sophorae has a unique aroma and could be used as a natural spice. The influence of yeast growth and culture medium pH on...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Carpesium cernuum</i> L., one of the two <i>Carpesium</i> species occurring in Europe, in the Far East and India, found use as a vegetable and a traditional medicinal remedy for...
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2021
Food chemistry
gc ms
A comprehensive data collection of mass spectral and gas chromatographic data of a series of esters of diastereomeric menthols (menthol, isomenthol, neomenthol, and neoisomenthol),...
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2021
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
gc ms
A headspace method called full evaporation technique (FET) coupled to capillary gas chromatography with a mass detector operating in time-of-flight mode (HS-GC/MS-TOF) was develope...
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2021
Saudi journal of biological sciences
aroma analysis
To explore the differences in the nutritional quality of the muscles of bighead carp from different environments and aquaculture systems, we investigated three types of water bodie...
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2021
gc ms
Lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and pneumonia are causing many global health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic has directed the scientific commu...
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2021
gc ms
The Tunisian <i>Ziziphus lotus</i> plant was investigated to determine its phytoconstituents and evaluate its biological activities. In particular, the GC/MS technique was used to...
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2021
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<h4>Background</h4>Meat quality and flavour are important criteria for judging fresh pork and processed products. However, there have been few studies on meat quality and volatile...
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PMID: 33326708
DOI: 10.1002/vms3.409
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2021
gc ms
While the inhalation of <i>Thymus vulgaris</i> L. essential oil (EO) is commonly approved for the treatment of mild respiratory infections, there is still a lack of data regarding...
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2021
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<h4>Purpose of review</h4>The main aims of fragrances are to create pleasing scents or to mask unpleasant odors. We hereby review their main exposure sources, presumed benefits, an...
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2021
Scientific reports
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Enzymatic browning is one of the crucial problems compromising the flavor and texture of fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. In this study, an untargeted metabolomics approach based on...
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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.