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
Natural product research
gc ms
The hydro-distilled essential oil from aerial parts of Orthosiphon pallidus Royle, ex Benth (Lamiaceae) was investigated by using gas chromatography equipped with a flame ionisatio...
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2020
Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
other
Senna alata is a medicinal herb of Leguminosae family. It is distributed in the tropical and humid regions. The plant is traditionally used in the treatment of typhoid, diabetes, m...
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PMID: 32148534
DOI: 10.1155/2020/2580259
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2020
other
Essential oils (EOs) have been described as promising eco-friendly secondary products of aromatic plants with several biological activities. The present study aimed to characterize...
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PMID: 32512751
DOI: 10.3390/plants9060716
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2020
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
gc ms
This study is aimed to investigate the aroma composition, phenolic acid, antioxidant activities and computational analysis of essential oils of five different parts of A. columnari...
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
Camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia [H.B.K] McVaugh) is a Amazonian fruit rich in ascorbic acid and phenolic compounds, and has been attracting great interest from the food, pharmaceutical...
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2020
gc ms
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from leaves of geranium (<i>Pelargonium graveolens</i> L' Herit) were extracted by dynamic headspace using Porapak Q (HSD-P) as adsorbent and peat...
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2020
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
aroma analysis
More than 1000 different cacao varieties are described. Only few are considered as fine or flavour cocoas, meaning they have the potential to develop special flavour characteristic...
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2020
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry
gc ms
Vladimiriae Radix, a geo-authentic medicinal herb found in Sichuan Province in China, is highly similar in chemical composition and pharmacological activity to Aucklandiae Radix. I...
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2020
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
gc ms
BACKGROUND: The full flavor of grape berries is determined by the interaction of sugars, acids, volatile compounds, and other berry properties, such as astringency. Sugars and acid...
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2020
Frontiers in plant science
aroma analysis
Sensory quality is of increasing importance to consumer decisions in choosing a product, and it is certainly an important factor in repurchasing in terms of meeting the necessary a...
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2020
aroma analysis
The aim of this research was to study the evolution of carotenoid compounds, antioxidant
-ctivity, volatiles and sensory quality in two mango cultivars dried at 50, 60 and 70 C....
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2020
Fermentation
other
Currently, insect pest control is carried out through the application of synthetic insecticides which have been related to harmful effects on both human and environmental health, a...
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2020
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics
other
β-Sitosterol (βSito) is the most abundant phytosterol found in elevated concentrations in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, cereals, fruits, and in many phytosterol-enriched foods. Alth...
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2020
Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology
gc ms
This study aimed to determine the relationship between volatile compounds of Picea likiangensis var. linzhiensis cone and host selection of Dioryctria abietella. During the infesta...
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2020
Environmental entomology
gc ms
Scolytus schevyrewi Semenov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is native to China and Central Asia. Damage by the adults and larvae weakens local apricot trees (Armeniaca spp....
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2020
Biomolecules
aroma analysis
The Eugenia and Syzygium genera include approximately 1000 and 1800 species, respectively, and both belong to the Myrtaceae. Their species present economic and medicinal importance...
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PMID: 32781744
DOI: 10.3390/biom10081155
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2020
Journal of evidence-based integrative medicine
other
Aromatic herbal remedies, hydrosols, and essential oils are widely used for women's hormonal health. Scientific investigation of their major constituents may prevent unwanted infer...
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2020
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung. C, Journal of biosciences
gc ms
In the present work the composition of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and the essential oil (EO) of Helichrysum araxinum Takht. ex Kirp. aerial parts, together with th...
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2020
aroma analysis
In this study, jerky samples were prepared from seasoned beef with and without the addition of starter culture. They were then dried or fried and analyzed to identify the quality p...
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PMID: 32405389
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1515
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Although numerous studies have been conducted on ginger extracts and fractions, the data on the pharmacological activity of single constituents of Zingiber officinale are still ins...
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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.