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.
2019
aroma analysis
Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of 4 lactic acid bacteria (LAB), Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, L. casei and L. plantarum, on the flavo...
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2019
other
Guava is a fruit appreciated worldwide for its high content of bioactive compounds. However, it is considered a highly perishable fruit, generally attacked by pathogenic species su...
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PMID: 31443462
DOI: 10.3390/biom9090399
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2019
other
The chemical profile and antioxidant capacity of <i>Juniperus virginiana</i>, <i>J. excelsa</i>, and <i>J. sabina</i> essential oil (EO) fractions as a function of time was the sub...
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2019
sensory panel
In this experiment, we studied the effect of poly(lactic acid)/poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PLA/PBAT) blend films on the efficiency of passion fruit preservation at 20...
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2019
gc ms
The discovery of a new species exhibiting more effective antibacterial properties is necessary because of the demand on <i>Lavandula</i> species, which continues to increase in a v...
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PMID: 31010122
DOI: 10.3390/foods8040132
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2019
gc ms
Essential oils (EOs) are one of the most important groups of plant metabolites responsible for their biological activities. This study was carried out to study the chemical composi...
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2019
Agronomy
other
The tomato commercial groups cherry and fresh market, mainly classified by fruit size, have clearly segregated markets. We aimed to estimate the variation within and between these...
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2019
Scientific reports
aeda
In tomatoes, most lycopene is present in the all-E-configuration and shows very low bioavailability, whereas the Z-isomers show higher bioavailability. Hence, for health reasons, i...
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2019
aroma analysis
The aroma quality of citrus fruit is determined by volatile compounds, which bring about different notes to allow discrimination among different citrus species. However, the volati...
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2019
Journal of applied microbiology
gc ms
AIMS: Wood as a packing tool is used for packaging and transportation of fruits and vegetables for a time period varying from hours to days. During transportation, fruits and veget...
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2019
gc ms
Aroma plays an important role in fruit quality and varies among different fruit cultivars. In this study, a sensitive and accurate method based on headspace solid-phase microextrac...
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2019
aroma analysis
Brine, the historically known food additive salt solution, has been widely used as a pickling media to preserve flavor or enhance food aroma, appearance, or other qualities. The in...
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2019
Journal of toxicology and environmental health. Part A
other
Beta-myrcene [or myrcene (1,6-Octadiene, 7-methyl-3-methylene-)] and the essential oils containing this monoterpene have been widely used in cosmetics, detergents, and soaps, and a...
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2019
gc ms
Volatile compounds in flowers of <i>Rhododendron delavayi</i>, <i>R. agastum</i>, <i>R. annae</i>, and <i>R. irroratum</i> were analyzed using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chr...
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2019
sensory panel
Omija (Schisandra chinesis Baillon) is a cluster of berries, mainly cultivated in East Asian countries. The objective of this study was to conduct an instrumental volatile flavor a...
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2019
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) W.T. Aiton, a distylous woody vine of the family Gelsemiaceae, produces sweetly fragrant flowers that are known for the toxic alkaloids they contain. Th...
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2019
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UASVM), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
gc ms
In the studies conducted in 2016-2017, the chemical composition of the essential oils isolated from the herb of two thyme (Thymus vulgaris L.) cultivars was investigated by gas chr...
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2019
gc ms
Lipids play an essential role in providing energy and other physiological functions for insects. Therefore, it is important to determine the composition of insect lipids from cutic...
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2019
gc ms
<h4>Objective</h4>The main objective of this study is to isolate, identify, and quantify the active antimicrobial compounds present in the crude aqueous stem bark extract of <i>B....
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2019
gc ms
<i>Campylobacter spp</i> infection affects more than 200,000 people every year in Europe and in the last four years a trend shows an increase in campylobacteriosis. The main vehicl...
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PMID: 30621057
DOI: 10.3390/bios9010008
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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.