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
SCOPE: Maltol (3-hydroxy-2-methy-4-pyrone), a potent antioxidative agent, typically is used to enhance flavor and preserve food. This study evaluated its effects on preventing diab...
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2018
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
pharmacology
Four previously undescribed antioxidative O-heterocyclic analogues, characterized as 3″-isopropyl-3c-{3b-[(2-oxo-3,4-dihydro-2H-chromen-3-yl) methyl] butyl}-2″-butenyl-3'-hydroxy-2...
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2018
gc ms
Myrtle (<i>Myrtus communis</i> L.) is a shrub spontaneously growing in the Mediterranean area. The leaf and fruit content of essential oils and phenolic compounds justify the wide...
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2018
other
In the present study, we developed a green epoxidation approach for the synthesis of the diastereomers of (-)-isopulegol benzyl ether epoxide using molecular oxygen as the oxidant...
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2018
Fitoterapia
other
Aspergillus luchuensis is widely used as a starter of saccharification in the koji industry, but no secondary metabolites have been reported from this fungus. Herein, we report the...
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2018
other
Olfactory cues provide critical information for spatial orientation of fish, especially in the context of anadromous migrations. Born in freshwater, juveniles of anadromous fish de...
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2018
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry
aroma analysis
UNLABELLED: 4-Hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone (HDMF) is a key aroma compound in Fragaria × ananassa (strawberry). A considerable amount of HDMF is converted into HDMF β-D-gluco...
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2018
aeda
<h4>Abstract</h4>The influence of different processing and storage conditions on the aroma and taste of soymilk were investigated. Volatile components in soymilk were made by soymi...
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2018
gc ms
The present study was conducted to evaluate the quality and bio-functional properties of Portuguese honeys of different botanical and geographical origins. Quality parameter analys...
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PMID: 30513584
DOI: 10.3390/foods7120194
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2018
other
The plant-growth modulating effect of microbial volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been demonstrated repeatedly. This has most often been performed by exposing plants to VOC rel...
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2018
International journal of molecular sciences
other
Monoterpenes R-pulegone (PUL) and R-menthofuran (MF), abundant in the Lamiaceae family, are frequently used in herb and food products. Although their hepatotoxicity was shown in ro...
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PMID: 29921785
DOI: 10.3390/ijms19061805
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2018
'Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)'
sensory panel
The impact of natural cheese and onion seasoning on the sensory perception and shelf life stability of potato crisps was studied. This study was carried out to evaluate the impact...
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2018
other
The emerging and reemerging forms of fungal infections encountered in the course of allogeneic bone marrow transplantations, cancer therapy, and organ transplants have necessitated...
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PMID: 29941838
DOI: 10.3390/jof4030077
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2018
other
This study addresses the effect of high-intensity ultrasonic processing on four oil-in-water systems, using sunflower, peanut, olive and flaxseed oils, respectively, that contained...
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2018
Food chemistry
pharmacology
Lipid oxidation-a major cause of food product deterioration-necessitates the use of food additives to inhibit food oxidation. Ginger extract (GE) has been reported to possess antio...
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2018
other
Plant-derived compounds that modulate the immune responses are emerging as frontline treatment agents for cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmunity. Herein we have isolated 40 p...
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PMID: 30404196
DOI: 10.3390/ijms19113490
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2018
other
Herein, nickel-catalyzed decarbonylative C-F bond alkylation of aroyl fluorides with organoboron reagents is reported. Aroyl fluorides are more chemically stable than the correspon...
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2018
International journal of food microbiology
other
Effective and environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional disinfectants are necessary to reduce the pollution and the emergence of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial strain...
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2018
other
A high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method was developed for the simultaneous isolation, on a semi-preparative scale, of chavibetol and methyleugenol from the crude ess...
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2018
pharmacology
In this study, three pretreatment processes were evaluated for their effects on the structural features and antioxidant activities of lignins extracted by the acetosolv process fro...
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PMID: 35542132
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra04009e
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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.