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
Buddy maple syrup is characterized by an unpleasant cabbage-like flavor occurring generally toward the end of the sap harvest season. Occurrence of buddy off-flavor leads to a decr...
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2019
European Food Research and Technology
gc ms
The aim of the present work was to study the main volatile and bioactive compounds (monomeric anthocyanins, hydrolysable tannins, total flavonoids, and total reducing capacity) of...
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2019
International journal of molecular sciences
gc ms
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is considered a profitable crop that possesses medicinal properties, because of its flavonoid compounds. However, the dehulling issue is bec...
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PMID: 30691178
DOI: 10.3390/ijms20030524
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2019
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
sensory panel
The Maillard reaction (MR) is responsible for the development of color, taste and aroma in bakery products though the formation of numerous aroma compounds such as pyrazines, pyrro...
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2019
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Brassica vegetables are a significant component of the human diet and their popularity is systematically increasing. The interest in plants from this group is growing because of nu...
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2019
Journal of texture studies
other
The bitterness of vegetables is a leading reason why they are avoided by children and some adults. Bitterness is perceived via TAS2R receptors located on the tongue. In contrast, a...
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2019
Advances in food and nutrition research
aeda
Glucosinolates are a large group of plant secondary metabolites with nutritional effects and biologically active compounds. Glucosinolates are mainly found in cruciferous plants su...
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2019
sensory panel
This paper describes data collected on 2 sets of 8 French red wines from two grape varieties: Pinot Noir (PN) and Cabernet Franc (CF). It provides, for the 16 wines, (i) sensory de...
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2019
International journal of food microbiology
other
Salmonella spp. is known to survive in intermediate- and low-moisture foods. Bakery products such as cream-filled brioche (aw 0.82-0.84), depending mainly on the aw of the fillings...
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2019
aeda
Commercial fragrant rapeseed oil (CFRO), from roasted and hot-pressed seed, is enjoyed in China for its unique aroma. However, the characteristic of aroma-active compounds in CFRO...
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2019
aeda
The quantitative determination of volatile compounds of Chardonnay wines using HS-SPME-GC × GC/TOFMS along with the determination of odor activity value (OAV) and relative odor con...
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2019
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
Solanaceae plant seeds, which contain high concentrations of tropane alkaloids, have not been studied in real conditions of proofing and baking processes. In this work both lab via...
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2019
International journal of environmental research and public health
gc ms
Determining acrylamide (AA) content in foods using chromatographic methods is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, there is a need to develop a simple, economical method for mo...
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2019
other
Understanding the sensory attributes that explain the typicity of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon wines is essential for increasing value and growth of Australia's reputation as a fi...
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PMID: 31861236
DOI: 10.3390/foods8120691
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2019
gc ms
Previous studies have shown that the Ancient Egyptians used malted wheat and barley as the main ingredients in beer brewing, but the chemical determination of the exact recipe is s...
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2019
aroma analysis
Experimental passito wines with different percentages of naturally noble-rotten grapes of the Garganega variety were analyzed to evaluate key molecules and odorants related to the...
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PMID: 31817273
DOI: 10.3390/foods8120642
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2019
aeda
Infusion-induced changes in the aroma and key odorants and their odor activity values of Iranian endemic herbal (Gol-Gavzaban) tea obtained from shade-dried violet-blue petals of b...
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2019
Journal of AOAC International
gc ms
Background: The quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe method, generally applied to the determination of pesticide residues in food, has been recently modified and adopted...
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2019
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
To map qualitative and quantitative metabolome alterations when Penicillium roqueforti is grown in an environment where l-tyrosine levels are perturbed, the recently established di...
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2019
'Udruga Futura'
gc ms
Cilj ovog rada je utvrditi razlike u kemijskom profilu aromatskih spojeva vina dobivenih od šumskih i kultiviranih kupina. Hlapljivi spojevi su izolirani metodom ekstrakcije vršnih...
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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.