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
Genetics
other
Chemosensation plays a role in the behaviors and life cycles of numerous organisms, including nematodes. Many guilds of nematodes exist, ranging from the free-living Caenorhabditis...
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2020
Frontiers in public health
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Heavy metals and PAHs were measured in animal foodstuffs from Augusta-Melilli-Priolo area in order to evaluate the potential human health risk associated to their consumption. All...
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2020
'IntechOpen'
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Essential oil, sent by nature, is a complex mixture of volatile secondary metabolites. Its composition varies along with many parameters that can lead to misunderstanding of its wo...
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2020
gc ms
The pickled products of finger citron are famous in southern China for their unique taste and flavor. Although pickling process involves complex treatments including salting, desal...
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2020
Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM
gc ms
RATIONALE: Over 2700 e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during August 20...
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PMID: 32672382
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8898
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2020
Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
other
As the fastest mode of transport, the aircraft is a major driver for globalization and economic growth. The development of alternative advanced liquid fuels is critical to sustaina...
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2020
gc ms
To enhance the degradation efficiency of oily wastewater, polyacrylamide (PAM)-sodium alginate (SA) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)-sodium alginate (SA) were mixed and used as spheri...
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2020
gc ms
Roses are one of the most important floricultural crops, and their essential oils have long been used for cosmetics and aromatherapy. We investigated the volatile compound composit...
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2020
Microorganisms
gc ms
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can potentially be used as an alternative strategy to control plant diseases. In this study, strain ST-TJ4 isolated from the rhizosphere...
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2020
EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority
other
The Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings added to food (FAF) provided a scientific opinion re-evaluating the safety of hydrogenated poly-1-decene (E 907) when used as a food add...
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
The drying technology is crucial to the quality of Congou black tea. In this study, the aroma dynamic characteristics during the variable-temperature final firing of Congou black t...
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2020
Metabolites
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Microalgae produce specific chemicals indicative of stress and/or death. The aim of this study was to perform non-destructive monitoring of algal culture systems, in the presence a...
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2020
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
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BACKGROUND: There is little information on human exposure to carcinogens and other toxicants related to opiate use, alone or in combination with tobacco. METHODS: Among male partic...
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2020
'Elsevier BV'
aroma analysis
Amino acids are attractive metabolites for the pharmaceutical and food industry field. On one hand, the construction of microbial cell factories for large-scale production aims to...
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2020
other
Sour citrus are prized for their flavor and fragrance. This work identified the components of the peel oil of Hetsuka-daidai (Citrus sp. hetsukadaidai), a special sour citrus that...
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2020
other
Abstract Yuzu (Citrus junos Sieb. ex Tanaka) is the most popular sour citrus fruit cultivated in Japan. The oil is traditionally extracted from the peel using the cold press techni...
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2020
Journal of applied microbiology
gc ms
AIM: This study investigated the in vitro mechanism of action of a commercial citrus EO, Brazilian orange terpenes (BOT), on an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) isolated fro...
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2020
Foods
other
The wine spirits used for the elaboration of Brandy de Jerez are mainly obtained from wines produced from the Airen type of grape, which comes from the vineyards located in the reg...
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2020
pharmacology
This study investigated the relationships between the structures of hydroxy unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) and their antifungal activities. Structurally diverse HUFA, including fou...
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2020
pharmacology
Triptolide is a trace natural product of Tripterygium wilfordii. It has antitumor activities, particularly against pancreatic cancer cells. Identification of genes and elucidation...
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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.