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
Food science and biotechnology
aeda
This study was to understand characteristic aroma properties of kale tea made by roasting kale leaves by profiling its aroma composition and screening its aroma-active compounds. S...
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2021
Journal of integrative plant biology
other
The ubiquitous volatile linalool is metabolized in plants to nonvolatile derivatives. We studied Nicotiana attenuata plants which naturally vary in (S)-(+)-linalool contents, and l...
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2021
Microbial cell factories
other
BACKGROUND: Linalool, an acyclic monoterpene alcohol, is extensively used in the flavor and fragrance industries and exists as two enantiomers, (S)- and (R)-linalool, which have di...
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2021
gc ms
"Yinghong 9" is a widely cultivated large-leaf variety in South China, and the black tea made from it has a high aroma and strong sweet flavor. "Huangyu" is a light-sensitive tea v...
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2021
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
other
Complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS-1) is a painful syndrome without effective treatment. In order to explore possible new treatments, we used an animal model of CRPS-1 to...
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2021
other
<i>Ficus deltoidea</i> Jack (Moraceae) is a well-known medicinal plant used in customary medication among the Malay people to reduce and mend sicknesses such as ulcers, psoriasis,...
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2021
gc ms
The purpose of the current study was to identify and quantify triterpenoids and other non-polar compounds in the leaves of three high bush blueberry cultivars (<i>Vaccinium corymbo...
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2021
gc ms
Smoking is mainly used to impart desirable flavour, colour and texture to the products. Various food smoking methods can be divided into traditional and industrial methods. The inf...
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PMID: 34073832
DOI: 10.3390/foods10061180
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2021
gc ms
<i>Zanthoxylum rhetsa</i> has been consumed in the diet in northern Thailand and also used as a medicament in ancient scripture for arthropathies. Thus, this study aimed to evaluat...
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PMID: 33763143
DOI: 10.1155/2021/5512961
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2021
ACS applied materials & interfaces
pharmacology
A membrane-lytic mechanism-based nanodrug is developed for drug-resistant tumor therapy by anchoring the small-molecule quaternary ammonium salt (QAS) on cross-linked (R)-(+)-lipoi...
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2021
aroma analysis
Two artisanal fermentation processes for <i>Criollo</i> cocoa beans with different turning start times (24 h and 48 h) were studied. The aromatic profile of cocoa turned every 24 h...
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2021
gc ms
The butterfly Heliconius erato occurs in various mimetic morphs. The male clasper scent gland releases an anti-aphrodisiac pheromone and additionally contains a complex mixture of...
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2021
aroma analysis
Glycosidic aroma compounds are the important precursors of volatile aroma in grapes, and they can be added with odorous aglycones <i>via</i> enzyme- or acid-catalyzed hydrolysis du...
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2021
The Analyst
gc ms
A micro fabricated chip-based wearable air sampler was used to monitor the personnel exposure of volatile chemical concentrations in microenvironments. Six teenagers participated i...
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PMID: 33205787
DOI: 10.1039/d0an01521k
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2021
gc ms
Chemical composition and herbicidal, antifungal, antibacterial and molluscicidal activities of essential oils from Choukzerk, <i>Eryngium triquetrum</i>, and Alexander, <i>Smyrnium...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Hanseniaspora vineae</i> is a non-<i>Saccharomyces</i> yeast that has a powerful impact on the sensory profile of wines. Its effect on the aromatic profile of non-aromatic grape...
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PMID: 33672220
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22042195
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2021
aroma analysis
Temperature, water, solar radiation, and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> concentration are the main abiotic factors that are changing in the course of global warming. These abiotic fact...
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2021
Food Chemistry
sensory panel
Heather honey is highly appreciated by consumers for its sensorial profile, which varies depending on the flora used by the honeybees. Volatile compounds contribute to these qualit...
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2021
other
In this work, the chemical compositions of basils oils, including those of lemon basil, white holy basil, Thai basil, tree basil and red holy basil, were analysed. Methyl eugenol w...
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2021
gc ms
This study investigated the impact of varying sound conditions (frequency and intensity) on yeast growth, fermentation performance and production of volatile organic compounds (VOC...
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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.