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.
2020
other
ABSTRACT Currently, the demand for biodegradable packaging as one of the preferable preservation technologies to prevent food spoilage is increasing. The aim of this study was to e...
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2020
gc ms
Ketumbar (Coriandrum sativum L.) is a plant that is widely used as a spice, especially in cooking spices. This plant has a distinctive aroma. The distinctive aroma that is owned be...
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2020
other
Activation of the transient receptor potential (TRP) channel TRPA1 by cinnamaldehyde has been shown to stimulate serotonin release in enterochromaffin QGP-1 cells. However, the imp...
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2020
aroma analysis
The cinnamon-derived bioactive aroma compound cinnamaldehyde (CAL) has been identified as a promising antiobesity agent, inhibiting adipogenesis and decreasing lipid accumulation i...
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2020
'MDPI AG'
aeda
In this study, five wild edible herbs traditionally consumed in the Tuscany region (Italy) were evaluated for their potential in human nutrition. The nutraceutical characterization...
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2020
gc ms
<h4>Introduction</h4>Plants have always been a significant source of natural active components with biological properties. Celery seed oil (extracted from <i>Apium graveolens</i>)...
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PMID: 33116493
DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s252640
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2020
other
Abstract An experiment was conducted at the Indian Institute of Spices Research, Regional Station, Madikeri, Karnataka, to study physiology, yield and quality responses of six smal...
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2020
other
The volatile oil of cardamom capsules is an expensive ingredient in food preparation, beverages, perfumery and traditional medicines. The capsules of 65 promising cardamom accessio...
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2020
gc ms
Caraway seeds are widely used as spice for flavoring and seasoning foods, like bread and salads, because of their pungent and anise like flavor and aroma. Carum carvi was utilized...
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2020
other
Hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is highly valued as a vegetable and spice, as well as commercial crop and becoming increasingly important in terms of production and consumption. Th...
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2020
'IntechOpen'
other
Capsicum spp., popularly known as chili pepper, is abundantly cultivated in Indonesia. Chili pepper has deeply integrated into Indonesian culture, even turned into inseparable ingr...
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2020
other
Cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in the world. Many cancer cells produce ATP through high-level lactic acid fermentation catalyzed by lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), whic...
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2020
Applied microbiology and biotechnology
aroma analysis
The fungal secretome comprises various oxidative enzymes participating in the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass as a central step in carbon recycling. Among the secreted enzym...
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2020
gc ms
<i>Dendrobium officinale</i> Kimura et Migo, a rare and traditional medicinal plant, contains many nutrients such as polysaccharides, alkaloids, amino acids and so on. Different gr...
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2020
Frontiers in microbiology
other
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by rhizobacteria have been proven to stimulate plant growth during germination and seedling stages. However, the modulating effect of bac...
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2020
'Universitat Politecnica de Valencia'
pharmacology
Tesis por compendio[ES] Mozambique, ubicado en la costa este de África, es un país en vías de desarrollo con un gran potencial en términos de disponibilidad de recursos agroecológi...
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2020
Journal of food biochemistry
gc ms
In the present study, a GC-MS method used for quantitative screening of 26 compounds (sclareolide, sclareol, ferruginol, cryptanol, 6,7-dehydroroyleanone, suginal, 9,10-dihydro-7,8...
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2020
pharmacology
Nowadays, propolis is used as a highly valuable product in alternative medicine for improving health or treating a large spectrum of pathologies, an ingredient in pharmaceutical pr...
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PMID: 33233429
DOI: 10.3390/plants9111619
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2020
gc ms
Extractives found in the heartwood of a moderately durable conifer (<i>Larix gmelinii var. japonica</i>) were compared with those found in a non-durable one (<i>Picea abies</i>). W...
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2020
Journal of food biochemistry
pharmacology
We investigated the effect of a 2:1 (w/w) mixture of lemon balm and dandelion extracts (LD) on ethanol (EtOH)-mediated liver injury and explored the underlying mechanisms. Administ...
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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.