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
aroma analysis
Plants are rich in bioactive compounds (BACs), mainly polyphenols, which are valuable choices to replace synthetic antioxidants in meat products. These natural antioxidants from pl...
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2021
sensory panel
Western consumers prefer tea products with little or no green flavor. Accordingly, edible basidiomycetes have been addressed as an innovative tool to naturally aromatize tea infusi...
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2021
gc ms
Polymeric coatings are used as a protective layer to preserve food or beverage quality and protect it from corrosion and avoid a metallic taste. These types of materials can contai...
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PMID: 34279275
DOI: 10.3390/ma14133704
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2021
Cosmetics
other
The current consumer demands together with the international regulations have pushed the cosmetic industry to seek new active ingredients from natural renewable sources for manufac...
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2021
aroma analysis
To counteract the negative effect of salt overconsumption on health, strategies have been developed to reduce the salt content in food products. Among them, two promising strategie...
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2021
gc ms
To date, no profile of volatile compounds in Emmental cheese produced in Poland has been published. The aim of this study was to determine the profile of volatile compounds during...
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2021
aroma analysis
Food authenticity is one of the largest concerns in recent days. As kimchi has been a global food, its production origin has been important issue, particularly due to the large imp...
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2021
Microorganisms
other
Plant-associated microbes can shape plant phenotype, performance, and productivity. Cultivation methods can influence the plant microbiome structure and differences observed in the...
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2021
Biomedical chromatography : BMC
gc ms
Dissipation kinetics and dietary risk assessment of spiromesifen is worked out on four summer vegetables, viz. okra, chilli, capsicum and brinjal (eggplant or aubergine) during Mar...
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2021
'MDPI AG'
pharmacology
Metabolomics has been a useful method for various study fields. However, its application in animal science does not seem to be sufficient. Metabolomics will be useful for various s...
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2021
gc ms
Evaluating the volatile compounds and characteristic fingerprints of the core cultivars of vegetable soybean would provide useful data for improving their aroma in the breeding pro...
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2021
BMC plant biology
other
BACKGROUND: Durian (Durio zibethinus L.) is a highly popular fruit in Thailand and several other Southeast Asian countries. It is abundant in essential nutrients and sulphur-contai...
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2021
aeda
Odor-active volatile compounds of sweet cucumber (Solanum muricatum) fruit were extracted by using the solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE) technique and analyzed, by gas chr...
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2021
other
Summary The capacity of a direct injection mass spectrometer based on proton transfer reaction (PTR-MS) to monitor the transient changes of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) du...
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2021
The Journal of dairy research
other
Our objective was to elaborate lactose-free Dulce de leche (DL) and evaluate the influence of the hydrolysis of this sugar on the attributes of the products. Fluid milk used was di...
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2021
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
Dulce de leche, a concentrated dairy product with high added value, is an essential product of Brazilian culture. However, with a competitive market among economic blocks, it is im...
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2021
Foodborne pathogens and disease
other
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a nosocomial, multidrug-resistant pathogen that causes significant economic losses in milk production and deterioration of dairy product quality. Th...
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2021
Journal of dairy science
sensory panel
The present study describes the effects of modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) on shelf-life extension, chemical, microbiological, and sensory properties of Domiati cheese. Five di...
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2021
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aroma analysis
Submerged cultures of the basidiomycota Cystostereum murrayi emit an intensive coconut-like, sweetish, and buttery smell. For identification of the key aroma compounds, an aroma di...
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2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Nutraceuticals and functional foods are gaining more attention amongst consumers interested in nutritious food. The consumption of foodstuffs with a high content of phytochemicals...
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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.