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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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.
2020
Microbial cell factories
other
BACKGROUND: The natural phenolic glycoside gastrodin is the major bioactive ingredient in the well-known Chinese herb Tianma and is widely used as a neuroprotective medicine in the...
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aroma analysis
Methionol is a sulfur-containing aroma compound that contributes to the flavors of fermented foods. In this work, a novel method for methionol production was established using 3-me...
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2020
European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology
pharmacology
Information on the correlation between intestinal microbiota and cardiovascular risk is growing. Some species of the microbiota influence the metabolism of specific food components...
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
threshold study
Tibetan Qingke Jiu is the most important alcoholic beverage in the daily life of Tibetan people due to its unique flavor and rich nutrients. In this study, the aromatic characteris...
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2020
Food chemistry
gc ms
A metabolomics strategy was developed to differentiate strong aroma-type baijiu (SAB) (distilled liquor) from the Sichuan basin (SCB) and Yangtze-Huaihe River Basin (YHRB) through...
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2020
Toxicology reports
other
Heavy metal toxicity in aquatic life as a result of human activities poses a grave health threat to water quality, aquatic and human life. Parasites may serve as indicators of heav...
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2020
Journal of food science
aroma analysis
Consumers consistently note that there is room for improvement in the flavor of commercial strawberries. Fruit flavor and aroma are affected by both genetics and environment. This...
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2020
aroma analysis
Microbial volatile compounds (MVCs) significantly influence the growth of plants and phytopathogens. However, the practical application of MVCs at the field level is limited by the...
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2020
gc ms
<i>Chrysophyllum albidum</i> Linn (African star apple) is a fruit with extensive nutritional and medicinal benefits. The fruit and kernel in the seed are both edible. Strains of la...
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2020
Insects
other
Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are lethal parasites of insects that have become valuable in biological control and as a model system for studying host-parasite interactions, beh...
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2020
International journal of food microbiology
other
Lauric arginate (LAE, ethyl-Nα-lauroyl-L-arginate hydrochloride) is synthesized from food components lauric acid and L-arginine and is quickly hydrolyzed to lauric acid and L-argin...
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2020
Nutrients
other
The purpose of this review is to highlight current research on the benefits of supplementation with foods with a diverse polyphenol composition, including fruits, vegetables, nuts,...
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PMID: 32664664
DOI: 10.3390/nu12072069
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
Rice-acid is a unique Chinese traditional fermented acid rice soup and its microbial community plays an important role in the formation of flavour compounds. In the study, rice-aci...
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2020
Journal of bioscience and bioengineering
other
Cyanobacteria can grow photoautotrophically, producing a range of substances by absorbing sunlight and utilizing carbon dioxide, and can potentially be used as industrial microbes...
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2020
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Laurus nobilis L. (laurel, Lauraceae) and Prunus armeniaca L. (apricot, Rosaceae) are important industrial crops and display significant biological properties, including antimicrob...
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2020
PloS one
other
Traditional smoke flavours bear the risk of containing a multitude of contaminating carcinogenic side-products. Enzymatic decarboxylation of ferulic acid released from agro-industr...
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
Ethyl butyrate is one of the most important flavor substances in Chinese Baijiu and is also an ingredient in various daily-use chemical essences and food flavorings. In this study,...
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2020
Journal of food science
other
Scented (joha) and black rice indigenous to northeast region (NER) of India are the two among 40,000 varieties of species Oryza sativa, prevalent for its great aroma, medicinal pro...
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2020
ACS omega
other
Scheelea phalerata Mart. ex Spreng (Arecaceae) is a palm tree found in the Brazilian cerrado. There are no topics related to volatile oils from S. phalerata leaves in the literatur...
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2020
Turkish journal of chemistry
other
This work introduces a new additive named 4,4'-trimethylenedipiperidine for the practical and ecofriendly preparation of ethyl 5-amino-7-(4-phenyl)-4,7-dihydro-[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-...
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PMID: 33488215
DOI: 10.3906/kim-2005-6
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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.