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
aroma analysis
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are important contributors to meat aroma and are variably correlated with each other. To study the sources of variation and the correlations among...
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PMID: 33255832
DOI: 10.3390/foods9121738
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2020
sensory panel
This study aimed to develop a low-calorie apricot nectar by replacing sucrose with different amount of <i>Stevia rebaudiana bertoni</i> (Rebaudioside A, 98%). Stevia has become ver...
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PMID: 32328249
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1464
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2020
Chemistry & biodiversity
gc ms
Asteriscus graveolens is an aromatic desert shrub which holds medicinal potential. This species belongs to the Asteraceae family and is endemic to the Mediterranean region. In the...
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2020
gc ms
Spearmint produces and stores large amounts of monoterpenes, mainly limonene and carvone, in glandular trichomes and is the major natural source of these compounds. Towards produci...
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PMID: 32859057
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21176164
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2020
Environmental research
other
Meat-grilling restaurants are considered to be residential emission sources of air pollutants. To investigate the emission characteristics of particulate matter (PM), odors, and vo...
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2020
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
aeda
BACKGROUND: Wild edible plants are good sources for bioactive compounds, vitamins, and minerals with various applications. They can play a role in supporting the immune system and...
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2020
Cell communication and signaling : CCS
pharmacology
BACKGROUND: Medium-chain fatty acids and their 3-hydroxy derivatives are metabolites endogenously produced in humans, food-derived or originating from bacteria. They activate G pro...
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2020
European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
other
Nowadays, the sorbates are the third largest group of antimicrobial preservatives in food and pharmaceutical industries, following the parabens and benzoates whose safety is questi...
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2020
other
<b>:</b> The effects of ultrasound (US), thermosonication (TS), ultrasound combined with nisin (USN), TS combined with nisin (TSN), and conventional thermal sterilization (CTS) tre...
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PMID: 33096786
DOI: 10.3390/foods9101512
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2020
other
Human body odour is dominated by the scent of specific odourants emanating from specialized glands in the axillary region. These specific odourants are produced by an intricate int...
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2020
Journal of breath research
other
Particulate air pollution is associated with adverse respiratory effects and is a major factor for premature deaths.In-vitroassays are commonly used for investigating the direct cy...
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2020
Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
pharmacology
Despite its evidenced beneficial herbicidal, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antioxidant effects, the application of juglone (5-hydroxy-1,4,-naphthoquinone) is limited du...
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2020
gc ms
<i>Etlingera pavieana</i> (Pierre ex Gagnep.) R.M.S. is a rhizomatous plant in the Zingiberaceae family which could be freshly eaten, used as a condiment or as a traditional remedy...
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2020
Nutrients
pharmacology
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) and its active compounds (gingerols, shogaols and paradols) have been reported as having beneficial functions for several diseases, including di...
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PMID: 31991895
DOI: 10.3390/nu12020324
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2020
PloS one
other
For more than a thousand years, Rhizoma Curcumae (known as E zhu), a Chinese herbal medicine, has been used to eradicate blood stasis and relieve aches. The plant Curcuma wenyujin,...
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2020
gc ms
Saffron, obtained from the stigmas of Crocus sativus L (Iridaceae), is the most expensive spice traded worldwide. In addition to its culinary uses, various medicinal properties hav...
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2020
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
This paper aims to assess the biological responses of Lavandula angustifolia Mill. to beech and spruce bark crude extract application. Thus, the biological activity of bark extract...
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PMID: 32646016
DOI: 10.3390/plants9070859
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2020
gc ms
This study investigated the non-volatile and volatile compounds in samples of cold brew (CB) coffee, coffee from a coffee shop (CS), ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee, and brewed coffee...
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PMID: 33256030
DOI: 10.3390/foods9121746
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2020
other
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSAPanel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on th...
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2020
other
Malignant diseases can cause tumor-associated cachexia (TAC). Supplementation with prebiotic non-digestible carbohydrates exerts positive metabolic effects in experimental oncologi...
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PMID: 32650568
DOI: 10.3390/nu12072029
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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.