Peer-Reviewed Research Database
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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.
2019
other
Biowaxes synthesized from vegetable fatty acids are an alternative to petrochemical paraffins. A simple way of access to these compounds involves Fisher-type esterification of long...
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2019
pharmacology
Understanding the functional relevance of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) homodimerization has been limited by the insufficient tools to assess asymmetric signaling occurring wit...
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2019
other
Synthesis of three linear oligosulfoxides containing up to six sulfoxide groups was achieved by multiple S<sub>N</sub>2 reactions between an alkanethiol and alkyl tosylate to give...
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2019
other
A facile and efficient protocol for the highly selective direct sulfanylation of 3-bromocoumarins under DABCO promotion, was developed. The transformation took place with aromatic...
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PMID: 35492534
DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09545d
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2019
pharmacology
(+)-(<i>S</i>) and (-)-(<i>R</i>)-5-methyl-Wieland-Miescher ketone (+)-<b>1</b> and (-)-<b>1</b>, are important synthons in the diastereo and enantioselective syntheses of biologic...
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PMID: 31817544
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20246147
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2019
Food chemistry
other
Some Eastern Asian countries deem pufferfish - especially its muscle - a culinary delight. Herein, molecular mass fingerprinting of soups prepared by Takifugu flavidus, Takifugu ob...
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2019
other
Increasing precipitation has been predicted to occur in the karst areas in southwestern regions of China. However, it is little known how various plants respond to increasing preci...
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2019
gc ms
The aim of this study was to determine how the addition of gold and silver nanoparticles to culture media affects the composition of essential oils extracted from Lavandula angusti...
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2019
other
Here, we describe a general stereoselective synthesis of the marine furanosesquiterpenes structurally related to pallescensins 1-2. The stereoisomeric forms of the pallescensin 1,...
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PMID: 31027184
DOI: 10.3390/md17040245
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2019
other
Organosulfur compounds are bioactive components of garlic essential oil (EO), mustard oil, <i>Ferula</i> EOs, asafoetida, and other plant and food extracts. Traditionally, garlic (...
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2019
other
Incorporation of nitrile groups into fine chemicals is of particular interest through C(sp<sup>3</sup>)-H bonds activation of alkyl nitriles in the synthetic chemistry due to the h...
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2019
'MDPI AG'
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Glycosides are ubiquitous plant secondary metabolites consisting of a non-sugar component called an aglycone, attached to one or more sugars. One of the most interesting aglycones...
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2019
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Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) is one of the important spice and also condiment crops grown in India since times immemorial. It is regarded as a symbol of well being and widely used i...
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2019
other
The essential oil (EO) obtained from the leaves of the thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) grown in Vietnam was found to contain thymol (39.79%), cymene (17.33%), and γ-terpinene (13.45%) a...
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2019
gc ms
The impact of different bitter taste compounds on the retronasal perception of coffee aroma was investigated. A sorted napping experiment was carried out on thirteen compounds at i...
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2019
'Wiley'
other
BACKGROUND: Microemulsions have been proposed as delivery systems for different lipophilic substances in transparent water-based systems. The chemical stability of the delivered co...
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2019
gc ms
Abstract The aim of this work was to determine the composition of the hydro-distilled essential oil of Schinus molle L. (Anacardiaceae) fruits, leaves and flowers grown in Ghor-Jor...
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2019
other
Summer savory (Satureja hortensis L.) is an aromatic medicinal plant native to southern Europe, and one of the 12 Satureja species has been classified in Iran [1]. Carvacrol and th...
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2019
gc ms
In this study, natural deep eutectic solvents (NADESs) were used as both the extraction and dilution matrix in static headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SHS-GC-MS) for...
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PMID: 31212696
DOI: 10.3390/foods8060205
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2019
other
In this study, novel active films made of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) containing a solid dispersion of sage extract (SE) were developed by means of the electrospinning technique and...
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PMID: 30781390
DOI: 10.3390/nano9020270
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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.