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
aroma analysis
Although new storage technologies have been emerging in recent years, preservation of pear (<i>Pyrus communis</i> L.) remains a challenge for suppliers. Maintenance of desired orga...
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PMID: 32942590
DOI: 10.3390/foods9091299
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2020
gc ms
The flavobacterium Chryseobacterium polytrichastri was investigated for its volatile profile by use of a closed-loop stripping apparatus (CLSA) and subsequent GC-MS analysis. The a...
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2020
other
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) has become a popular model for genetic studies of fruit flavor in the last two decades. In this article we present a study of tomato fruit flavor,...
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PMID: 32369642
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14795
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2020
gc ms
<i>Gardenia jasminoides</i> Ellis is a famous fragrant flower in China. Previous pharmacological research mainly focuses on its fruit. In this study, the essential oil of the flowe...
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2020
aroma analysis
BACKGROUND
Flavor loss is a common problem when manufacturing apple juice and is closely related to the properties of the colloidal pectin particles in cloudy juice. The flavor cha...
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2020
gc ms
Foodomics, emergent field of metabolomics, has been applied to study food system processes, and it may be useful to understand sensorial food properties, among others, through food...
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PMID: 32932861
DOI: 10.3390/foods9091276
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2020
gc ms
Aroma is a crucial criterion to assess the quality of apple fruits, juices, and ciders. The aim of this study was to explore similarities and differences in volatile profiles among...
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PMID: 33317039
DOI: 10.3390/foods9121830
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2020
gc ms
In the past, Native Americans of North America had an abundant traditional herbal legacy for treating illnesses, disorders, and wounds. Unfortunately, much of the ethnopharmacologi...
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PMID: 31963839
DOI: 10.3390/plants9010126
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2020
pharmacology
Interest in alkylamide, as a class of compound, has grown tremendously in recent years. This interest is due to the many presumed benefits in food, cosmetics, and medicine. This re...
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2020
aroma analysis
<i>Thrips hawaiiensis</i> is a common thrips pest of various plant flowers with host preference. Plant volatiles provide important information for host-searching in insects. We exa...
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2020
other
Fenjiao (Musa ABB Pisang Awak) is a popular banana cultivar due to its good taste and stress resistance, but it has a short shelf-life and deteriorates rapidly post-harvest. The ef...
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2020
gc ms
Since time immemorial, the oleo-gum-resins of Ferula assa-foetida and F. gummosa are used in the traditional medical systems as well as in foodstuffs, perfumery and cosmetics. In t...
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2020
gc ms
Thirty-six volatile compounds, composed of 18 esters, 10 terpenes, and 8 others, were detected by headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) equipped with gas chromatography-m...
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2020
other
A highly Me<sub>2</sub>Zn-mediated catalytic enantioselective Reformatsky reaction of aldehydes and ketones with ethyl iodoacetate using a readily available prolinol ligand is repo...
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2020
aroma analysis
The characterization of autochthonous cultures based on their contribution to cheese flavor is an additional selection criterion for their use in cheese making. The objective of th...
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2020
aeda
Wuyi rock tea (WRT), is one kind of oolong tea and widely appreciated for its typical 'rock flavor'. The odor characteristics of WRT during processing were comprehensive investigat...
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2020
aroma analysis
Commercial sparkling wine production represents a relatively low but important part of the Croatian wine production, especially in the Zagreb county. This study presents the result...
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2020
gc ms
Fermented vinegar is prepared from grains and medicinal plants. Here, we produced vinegar from peeled and unpeeled roots of bellflowers (<i>Platycodon grandiflorum</i>) using <i>Ac...
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PMID: 32764333
DOI: 10.3390/foods9081063
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2020
gc ms
Chemical substances shall not migrate from food contact materials (FCM) at levels that are potentially harmful for the consumers. Each of the current analytical methods applied to...
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2020
other
This study aimed to elucidate changes in volatile, phenolic, and oenological profiles of wines vinified from Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF)-treated and untreated Merlot grapes during...
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PMID: 32268596
DOI: 10.3390/foods9040443
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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.