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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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.
2019
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
pharmacology
Cold plasma processing has emerged a promising green technology with great potential to improve the quality and microbial safety of various minimally processed foods and materials....
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2019
Frontiers in nutrition
pharmacology
The polyamines spermine, spermidine, and putrescine are involved in various biological processes, notably in cell proliferation and differentiation, and also have antioxidant prope...
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2019
Revue des maladies respiratoires
other
UNLABELLED: Although recognized as less dangerous than conventional cigarettes, the toxicity of the electronic cigarette vapor's toxicity remains to be fully assessed. This review...
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2019
Nestle Nutrition Institute workshop series
other
The first 1,000 days of life constitute an important period for the development of health and eating behavior. While the feeding mode drastically evolves, the child learns "how", "...
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2019
Journal of insect physiology
other
Migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria) frequently aggregate into huge swarms that cause serious economic losses for the agricultural sector. Differential behaviors of male and fema...
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2019
Microbiological research
other
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released from bacterial species have been reported as plant growth inducers. In this sense, Lactuca sativa was used as model vegetable to prospect...
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2019
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology
aroma analysis
Plant pyruvate decarboxylases (PDC) catalyze the decarboxylation of pyruvate to form acetaldehyde and CO2 and are well known to play a key role in energy supply via fermentative me...
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2019
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
Carrots are a multi-nutritional food source. They are an important root vegetable, rich in natural bioactive compounds, which are recognised for their nutraceutical effects and hea...
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PMID: 31546950
DOI: 10.3390/foods8090424
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2019
Frontiers in nutrition
aeda
Ferulic acid is a simple phenolic acid found mainly in cereals and grains, used as an antioxidant and food preservative. Recent evidence suggests that ferulic acid possess anti-inf...
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2019
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
other
The biotechnological production of fragrances is a recent trend that has expanded rapidly in the last two decades. Vanillin is the second most popular flavoring agent after saffron...
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2019
Biomedicines
other
Fragrances play a pivotal role in humans' psychological and physiological functions through the olfactory system. Aldehydes are important organic compounds with a variety of fragra...
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2019
Journal of toxicologic pathology
other
Hexyl acetate (CAS No. 142-92-7) is a naturally occurring ester compound that has a fruity odor. Despite its frequent use as a nature-identical flavoring agent, there are limited r...
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PMID: 31402808
DOI: 10.1293/tox.2019-0002
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2019
Heliyon
other
The antioxidant activities in vitro and hepatoprotective effects against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced acute liver injury in vivo of myristic acid acylated derivative of phlo...
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2019
The Journal of antibiotics
pharmacology
Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes), an important food-borne pathogenic microorganism, has resistance immune function to many commonly used drugs. Myristic acid is a traditio...
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2019
International journal of biological macromolecules
pharmacology
The physical mechanics and structural properties of composite films based on chitosan and syringic acid (SA) were studied in this study. The results indicated that the addition of...
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2019
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The genus Berberis includes about 500 different species and commonly grown in Europe, the United States, South Asia, and some northern areas of Iran and Pakistan. Leaves and fruits...
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PMID: 31652576
DOI: 10.3390/foods8100522
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2019
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
aeda
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to define the effects of the hulling process on the aroma and aroma-active composition of cv. Uzun pistachio. Four different hulling proce...
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2019
World journal of gastroenterology
other
BACKGROUND: Procyanidins have beneficial effects on metabolic syndrome and antimicrobial activity, but the mechanisms underlying these effects are unclear. AIM: To investigate the...
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2019
Critical reviews in biotechnology
other
Some microorganisms naturally produce β-poly(l-malic acid) (PMA), which has excellent water solubility, biodegradability, and biocompatibility properties. PMA has broad prospective...
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2019
The Journal of heredity
other
Many organisms live in complex environments that vary geographically in resource availability. This environmental heterogeneity can lead to changes within species in their phenotyp...
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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.