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.
2018
Food & function
other
Diverse human intestinal microbiota are regarded as a prerequisite for a healthy intestine. Commercial prebiotic products have a limited ability to provide microbial diversity in t...
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2018
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
Cooking modifies food composition due to chemical reactions. Additionally, food composition shapes the human gut microbiota. Thus, the objective of this research was to unravel the...
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2018
Food Chemistry
aroma analysis
The effect of ripening on the evolution of the volatomic pattern from endemic Vaccinium padifolium L. (Uveira)
berries was investigated using headspace-solid phase microextraction...
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2018
other
We have explored here the scope of the age-old diethyl malonate-based accesses to α-amino esters involving Knoevenagel condensations of diethyl malonate on aldehydes, reductions of...
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PMID: 30498536
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.14.264
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2018
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Star anise essential oil (SAEO) is a plant essential oil with good antibacterial activity, but its applications are limited due to its high volatility, strong smell, and unstable p...
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2018
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
European sea bass is very popular in the Mediterranean area, although very little is known about the possible different behaviours of farmed and wild samples during cooking. This s...
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2018
gc ms
Wood/biomass smoke particulate materials (WBSPM) are pneumotoxic, but the mechanisms by which these materials affect lung cells are not fully understood. We previously identified t...
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2018
Scientific reports
gc ms
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a heterogeneous malignant disease with distinct global distribution. Metabolic adaptations of HNC are significantly gaining clinical interests nowaday...
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2018
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
gc ms
BACKGROUND: One of the best preservation method for long-term storage is drying. In this work, the influence of different drying methods on aroma and sensory profile of shiitake mu...
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2018
gc ms
The aim of the presented study is to identify a simple applicable method to distinguish between garlic clones that are used in pharmaceutical or food industry. Four different clone...
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2018
sensory panel
Ramson (Allium ursinum) is known for its typical garlic-like aroma. Both ramson and garlic belong to the genus allium which is characterized by a high content of sulfurous compound...
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2018
Journal of insect science (Online)
other
Many animals protect themselves from predation with chemicals, both self-made or sequestered from their diet. The potential drivers of the diversity of these chemicals have been lo...
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PMID: 29718491
DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iey020
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2018
Pest management science
other
BACKGROUND: 2-Alkyl-3-methoxypyrazines (MPs) are naturally occurring aromatic compounds involved in insect chemical communication as both pheromones and allelochemicals. Although r...
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2018
Food chemistry
gc ms
This research investigated the influence of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains on ester levels in Bordeaux red wines. These wines were made in five Bordeaux areas in two vintages,...
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2018
Oecologia
other
Plant chemistry is one of the main drivers of herbivore distribution. Monophagous herbivore species are highly specialized, but even within their only host species the chemistry va...
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2018
Food chemistry
aroma analysis
This study evaluates the impact on two varietal white wines from 'Chardonnay' and 'Verdejo' cultivars of different fermentative strategies: inoculation with Saccharomyces cerevisia...
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2018
Scientific reports
gc ms
Thousands of electronic cigarette refill fluids are commercially available. The concentrations of nicotine and the solvents, but not the flavor chemicals, are often disclosed on pr...
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2018
Frontiers in nutrition
other
Acrylamide (AA) is a water soluble white crystalline solid commonly used in industries. It was listed as an industrial chemical with potential carcinogenic properties. However to d...
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2018
Critical reviews in biotechnology
other
Currently, growing attention is being devoted to the conversion of biomass into value-added products, such as itaconic acid (IA), which is considered as the cleanest alternative to...
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2018
aroma analysis
Sweet osmanthus (<i>Osmanthus fragrans</i>) is a very popular ornamental tree species throughout Southeast Asia and USA particularly for its extremely fragrant aroma. We constructe...
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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.