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
aeda
Brown sugar (non-centrifugal cane sugar) is popular for its pleasant caramel-like aroma and sweetness. Vacuum simultaneous steam distillation and extraction (V-SDE) and gas chromat...
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2021
gc ms
Table olives can suffer different types of spoilage during fermentation. In this work, a multi-statistical approach (standard and compositional data analysis) was used for the stud...
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PMID: 34073901
DOI: 10.3390/foods10061182
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2021
Meat science
other
In this work, Italian salami were produced using microbial starters (Pediococcus pentosaceus, Lactobacillus sakei, and Staphylococcus xylosus) and compared to a control sample (wit...
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2021
sensory panel
The demand for fresh, safe, and healthy fruits by consumers has increased, which concurrently occurs with an increase in initiatives on reducing food wastage. Starfruit consists of...
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2021
gc ms
Squid (Loligo sp.) is one of the marine fishery commodities that abundant in resources and valuable economically in Indonesia. To increase the economic value of food, processing ac...
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2021
Food microbiology
gc ms
This work aimed to evaluate Coffea canephora's microbiological, chemical, and sensory characteristics at 300 and 600 m elevation plantations processed by the natural method inocula...
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2021
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
other
Declines across global fishery stocks forced aquaculture feed manufacturers to search for new and sustainable components. Therefore, the aim of study was assessing nutritional valu...
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2021
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho
other
To evaluate the effects of Spirulina platensis and probiotics on growth, immunity indexes, fecal flora, and fecal odor in mice, 40 mice were randomly allotted to four groups, and e...
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2021
aroma analysis
Plants containing essential oils have been used for centuries as spices, remedies or for their pleasant odor [...].
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PMID: 34065834
DOI: 10.3390/foods10051062
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2021
Journal of proteomics
other
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Cereal products like flour and bread are known to trigger diseases such as wheat allergy, celiac disease and non-celiac wheat sensitivity (NCWS). Some of the...
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2021
Neuroscience
threshold study
Our objective was to compare brain responses to trigeminal and olfactory stimuli in frequent and non-frequent gum chewers in order to explore whether habitual exposure to trigemina...
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2021
Food chemistry
aeda
The key aroma compounds of six commercially available dry-cured Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius, DCSM) were identified using electronic nose (E-nose), gas chromatography-...
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2021
Food chemistry
aeda
Black soybean sauce's (BSS) aroma was scarcely investigated, which seriously affected BSS's quality and consumers' preference. Thus the aroma compounds in BSS were characterized us...
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2021
Tropical animal health and production
gc ms
This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of soybean oil level on performance and fatty acid profile of backfat and longissimus lumborum muscle of gilts. Forty-eight gilts wi...
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2021
sensory panel
Plant-based meat substitutes are emerging as healthy, balanced, and sustainable non-animal alternatives to alleviate stress from the increased demand for meat products. In this stu...
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2021
Ultrasonics sonochemistry
other
To improve the soybean protein content (SPC), flavor and quality of soymilk, the effects of dual-frequency ultrasound at different angles (40 + 20 kHz 0°, 40 + 20 kHz 30°, 40 + 20...
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2021
Journal of food science
other
Miso is a well-known traditional Japanese fermented food, with a characteristic savory flavor and aroma, known predominately as the seasoning in miso soup. Miso production involves...
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Lipids from milk are important nutritional components, although their health effects, especially for animal milks, are still questioned. Four types of commercial milks, two semi-sk...
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2021
Preparative biochemistry & biotechnology
pharmacology
Utilization of economical and environmental methods as an alternative process to recover the industrial crops and food products into high-added value compounds is of great signific...
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2021
Food chemistry
gc ms
The increasing interest of consumers in the still-developing craft beer market and the strict tax-related legal regulations concerning alcoholic beverages require precise methods f...
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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.