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
Blowflies are known vectors of many foodborne pathogens and unintentional human ingestion of maggots by meat consumption may lead to intestinal myiasis. In fact, the control of ins...
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2020
gc ms
Schizonepetae Spica (SS) is commonly used for treating colds, fevers, bloody stool and metrorrhagia in China. To treat colds and fevers, traditional Chinese medicine doctors often...
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2020
gc ms
<h4>Context</h4><i>Schumanniophyton magnificum</i> Harms (Rubiaceae) is used traditionally in Nigeria for the treatment of snake bites. Snake venom contains phospholipase A<sub>2</...
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2020
gc ms
Organic production has increasing importance in the food industry. However, its effect on the olive oil characteristics remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to research i...
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PMID: 33260545
DOI: 10.3390/foods9121766
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2020
Food Chemistry
gc ms
At present, the geographical origin of extra virgin olive oils can be ensured by documented traceability, although chemical analysis may add information that is useful for possible...
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2020
Food chemistry
sensory panel
A selected Pichia fermentans strain was simultaneously and sequentially inoculated in synthetic and real juice with S. cerevisiae strains of different antagonistic activities in a...
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The pure Soqotri resin of Dracaena cinnabari Balf.f. (Dracaenaceae) has no volatile smell due to its low content of volatile constituents. Although it is insoluble in n-Hexane, we...
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2020
gc ms
<b>Context:</b> A variety of <i>Acmella oleracea</i> (L.) R.K. Jansen (Asteraceae) is used by the Mizo people of India and Myanmar for intestinal helminthiasis.<b>Objective:</b> To...
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2020
gc ms
A rapid increase in the use of non-biodegradable plastics and their disposal after use has had a detrimental impact on the environment. Used plastics (used low-density polyethylene...
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PMID: 35521270
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra07073d
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2020
gc ms
Morels (<i>Morchella</i> spp.) are valuable medicinal and edible mushrooms. In this study, chemical profiles of aromas and lipophilic extracts of black morel (<i>Morchella importun...
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2020
The Science of the total environment
other
Molecular and chemical fingerprints from 10 contrasting outdoor air environments, including three agricultural farms, three urban parks and four industrial sites were investigated...
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2020
aroma analysis
Vanilla is one of the most popular species in the world. Its main compound, vanillin, is responsible for its characteristic aroma and flavor and its antioxidant and biological prop...
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PMID: 32992589
DOI: 10.3390/foods9101375
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2020
Scientia Horticulturae
other
A melon non-climacteric near-isogenic line (NIL) SC10-2 and its parental ‘Piel de Sapo’ (PS) line were studied in two different seasons to analyse the seasonal effects of an introg...
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2020
gc ms
Development of early noninvasive methods for lung cancer diagnosis is among the most promising technologies, especially using exhaled breath as an object of analysis. Simple sample...
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2020
gc ms
In the present study, volatile compound analysis of olive oil samples belonging to ten Greek cultivars was carried out. A total of 167 olive oil samples collected from two consecut...
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PMID: 33203191
DOI: 10.3390/foods9111672
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2020
sensory panel
Abstract When microalgae are integrated into food and feedstuffs, they can affect their flavor and fragrance characteristics, besides increasing their nutritional value. Solid-phas...
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2020
other
Photochemistry, the use of light to promote organic transformations, has been known for more than a century but only recently has revolutionized the way modern chemists are thinkin...
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PMID: 32395186
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.16.76
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2020
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
To prevent microbial growth and its consequences, preservatives such as sorbic acid or its salts, commonly known as sorbates, are added to foods. However, some moulds and yeasts ar...
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PMID: 32046208
DOI: 10.3390/foods9020162
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2020
Huan jing ke xue= Huanjing kexue
gc ms
Wood and economic crops are still widely used in rural areas of China. Although their combustion is an important source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), study on their emissio...
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2020
gc ms
This work presents a new triptycene-based stationary phase (TP-PEG) combining the three-dimensional (3D) triptycene (TP) framework with polyethylene glycol (PEG) moieties for gas c...
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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.