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
gc ms
The thermal degradation of lipid oxidation products with amino acids and reducing sugars is known to be important for the characteristic aroma generation in both meat and meat-like...
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PMID: 30960505
DOI: 10.3390/polym11030521
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2019
gc ms
Niche production is intended to produce premium pork, but several husbandry factors may affect the meat fatty acid composition and aroma. Fatty acid profile (by GC-FID) of raw meat...
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PMID: 31346500
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7322
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2019
gc ms
In Colombia, coffee growers use a traditional method of fermentation to remove the cherry pulp surrounding the beans. This process has a great influence on sensory quality and pres...
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2019
aeda
Toona sinensis (A. Juss.) M. Roem. (TS) possesses a unique and pleasant flavor and is consumed as a popular seasonal vegetable in certain parts of eastern and southeastern Asia. Th...
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2019
aroma analysis
Honey composition and color depend greatly on the botanical and geographical origin. Water content, water activity and color of 50 declared acacia samples, collected from three dif...
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PMID: 31569748
DOI: 10.3390/foods8100445
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2019
aroma analysis
ABSTRACT A quinoa sourdough inoculated with Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 vs. a spontaneous sourdough were used to assess the changes in amino acid content released by proteoly...
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2019
other
Aliphatic aldehydes and ketones are essential building blocks for the synthesis of more complex organic compounds. Despite their potentially key role as precursors of astrobiologic...
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2019
aeda
To characterize the aroma components of Sachima and provide insight into the influence of egg on the flavor of Sachima, the key aroma-active compounds in four commercial egg flavor...
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2019
other
Meat and meat products are a fundamental part of the human diet. The protein and vitamin content, as well as essential fatty acids, gives them an appropriate composition to complet...
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PMID: 31557858
DOI: 10.3390/antiox8100429
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2019
gc ms
Essential oils (EOs) from the stems and leaves of Origanum vulgare L. grown in Saudi Arabia and Jordan were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and GC-flame io...
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2019
Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica
pharmacology
During the last years, pharmaceutical innovations in primary care are dramatically less frequent and will be even more rare in the next future. In this context, preclinical and cli...
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2019
Food chemistry
other
Oat is rich in a wide range of phytochemicals with various physico-chemical, colloidal and interfacial properties. These characteristics are likely to influence human lipid metabol...
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2019
European Food Research and Technology
sensory panel
Three orange liquors were prepared by macerating of the peel of three orange cultivars (“Clemenules”, “Valencia Late”, and “Sanguinely”). The following parameters were analyzed in...
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2019
The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology
other
OBJECTIVES: Cinnamomum (Family Lauraceae) is traditionally used for flavouring food and in pharmaceutical preparations against various ailments. Detailed literature on the ethnobot...
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2019
Biotechnology progress
other
The natural production of patchouli oil in developing countries cannot meet the increasing demand any more. This leads to socioecological consequences, such as the use of arable la...
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2019
BMC plant biology
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth. (Patchouli) is an important aromatic and medicinal plant and widely used in traditional Chinese medicine as well as in the perfume ind...
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2019
Botanical studies
aroma analysis
BACKGROUND: Many commercially important drug and flavor compounds are secondary metabolites of terpenoid origin. Pogostemon cablin, a commercially important industrial and medicina...
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2019
gc ms
Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of the senescent leaves of Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae)....
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2019
gc ms
The present study aimed to investigate the acaricidal properties of six essential oils. They were extracted from some plant species (<i>Lamiaceae</i> and <i>Myrtaceae</i>) using th...
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PMID: 30881997
DOI: 10.1155/2019/7805467
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2019
other
<i>Piper</i> species are aromatic plants used as spices in the kitchen, but their secondary metabolites have also shown biological effects on human health. These plants are rich in...
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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.