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
gc ms
ABSTRACT In the heat treatment of oysters, many aroma compounds are lost in the cooking steam and water. In this study, aroma compound profiles from oyster processing were identifi...
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2020
Microbial pathogenesis
other
We determined whether thymol supplementation of would minimize the negative effects of Aeromonas hydrophila infection on branchial energy metabolism, weight loss and mortality in g...
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2020
gc ms
Grapefruit essential oil has been proven to have wide range of bioactivities. However, bioactivity of its molecular distillate has not been well studied. In this study, a light pha...
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2020
Cells
gc ms
Fruit juice is one of the most easily accessible resources for the isolation of plant-derived vesicles. Here we found that micro- and nano-sized vesicles (MVs and NVs) from four Ci...
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PMID: 33371199
DOI: 10.3390/cells9122722
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
aeda
The volatiles of cape gooseberry fruit (Physalis peruviana L.) were isolated by solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE), odor active compounds identified by gas chromatography-o...
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2020
gc ms
Changes in volatile compounds of fermented minced pepper (FMP) during natural fermentation (NF) and inoculated fermentation (IF) process were analyzed by the headspace-gas chromato...
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PMID: 32724601
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1616
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2020
other
In recent years, and even more since its legalization in several jurisdictions, cannabis and the endocannabinoid system have received an increasing amount of interest related to th...
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2020
gc ms
Curcuma amada Roxb. (Zingiberaceae), commonly known as mango ginger because its rhizome and foliar parts have a similar aroma to mango. The rhizome has been widely used in food ind...
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2020
International journal of food microbiology
other
The effects of gelatin-carboxymethyl cellulose (Gel-CMC) based films containing chitin nano fiber (CHNF) and Trachyspermum ammi essential oil (Ajowan), on the shelf life extension...
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2020
Agronomy
gc ms
The main function of floral scent is to attract and guide pollinators, but it is also an important character in the ornamental plant industry. Several studies have considered the c...
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2020
gc ms
Natural compounds originally derived from plants are historically considered a useful source of potential therapeutic agents, and are known to play essential roles in human disease...
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2020
other
The purpose of this study was to determine the sensory profile and consumer response, as well as physicochemical properties of low-sugar apple preserves (with or without gelling ag...
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PMID: 32150889
DOI: 10.3390/foods9030293
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2020
gc ms
An analytical method for furan in semi-solid and paste-type food products that have been widely used consumed in Korea was presented using headspace solid-phase microextraction by...
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2020
gc ms
Abstract BACKGROUND Low adoption of maize varieties bred to address the nutritional needs of the growing African population limits their impact. Aroma is essential in consumer pref...
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PMID: 32880955
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.10781
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2020
gc ms
The main goal of the present study was evaluating the effect of enriching meat products (cooked (C-SAU) and dry-cured sausages (D-SAU)) with monolayered (Mo) and multilayered (Mu)...
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PMID: 33217971
DOI: 10.3390/foods9111683
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2020
aroma analysis
At present, the consumption of medical plants and functional foods is growing in the whole world. Rosebay willowherb (<i>Chamerion</i><i>angustifolium</i> (L.) Holub) is an importa...
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PMID: 33271802
DOI: 10.3390/plants9121683
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2020
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry
threshold study
The significance of wood odors beyond flavoring effects for barbecues and wine aged in barrels has recently been under discussion. Wood has an immense influence on our physical and...
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2020
aeda
Citrus tea is an emerging tea drink produced from tea and the pericarp of citrus, which consumers have increasingly favored due to its potential health effects and unique flavor. T...
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2020
'American Chemical Society (ACS)'
gc ms
Alcohol-free beers (AFB) brewed by cold-contact fermentation exhibit a flavor reminiscent of wort which affects consumer acceptability. The aims of this study were to identify the...
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2020
Chemistry & biodiversity
gc ms
Wild Foeniculum vulgare subsp. piperitum (C.Presl) Bég. flowers, fruits and leaves were extracted with steam distillation and obtained essential oils (EOs) were characterized using...
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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.