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.
2018
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
gc ms
Peach is one of the most appreciated temperate fruit worldwide with high potential value on the market. However, consumers are not satisfied with the quality attributes of peach an...
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2018
other
Hop-derived volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an important role in the flavor and aroma of beer, despite making up a small percentage of the overall profile. To understand the...
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2018
'Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press)'
gc ms
In this paper, the potential of oil palm frond (OPF) juice as an alternative and renewable carbon source to replace the function of glucose to produce volatile compounds by Ceratoc...
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2018
other
Parasitoid fitness is influenced by the ability to overcome host defense strategies and by the ability of parasitoid females to select high-quality host individuals. When females a...
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PMID: 29607019
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3877
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2018
other
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are small molecules that contribute to the distinctive flavour of cheese which is an important attribute for consumer acceptability. To investigat...
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2018
gc ms
Fragranced consumer products have been associated with adverse effects on human health. Babies are exposed to a variety of fragranced consumer products, which can emit numerous vol...
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2018
gc ms
Lulo (<i>Solanum quitoense</i> Lam.) is an exotic fruit cultivated in Colombia. During ripening and senescence, this climactic fruit undergoes biochemical processes that produce th...
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2018
Journal of Chromatography A
threshold study
An automated dynamic headspace (DHS) method combined with thermal desorption (TD) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been developed and applied to characterize th...
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2018
gc ms
The aim of the present study was to assess the malodorous spoilages of Spanish-style green table olives through microbial and metabolite composition using current measuring techniq...
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PMID: 30384453
DOI: 10.3390/metabo8040073
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2018
gc ms
The flavoring of vinegars with aromatic fruits and medicinal herbs is a practice with increasing trend mostly in countries with oenological tradition, resulting in a product of imp...
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2018
other
This study was performed to determine the effect of the addition of <i>Laurus nobilis</i> L. essential oil (EO) (at 0.01% v/v) and of the packaging material (brown and transparent...
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2018
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Plants used for traditional medicine produce diverse and complex secondary metabolites exhibiting various medicinal properties. The medicinal plant Haplophyllum...
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2018
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Mentha spicata (M. spicata) is a member of Lamiaceae that spreads mainly in the temperate and sub-temperate zones of the world. It is considered as a rich source...
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2018
gc ms
<i>Lippia schaueriana</i> Mart. (Verbenaceae) is an endemic species of Caatinga with a restricted distribution to the states of Bahia and Pernambuco, which presents itself as a pot...
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2018
other
Genus <i>Mentha</i>, a member of Lamiaceae family, encompasses a series of species used on an industrial scale and with a well-described and developed culture process. Extracts of...
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PMID: 30181483
DOI: 10.3390/plants7030070
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2018
other
The ruthenium-catalyzed allylation of aldehydes with allylic pro-nucleophiles has been demonstrated to be an efficient means to form carbon-carbon bonds under mild conditions. The...
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2018
gc ms
Tephritid fruit flies require protein for sexual and gonotrophic development. Food-based lures are therefore widely used in strategies to detect and control fruit flies in the Teph...
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2018
aroma analysis
Smogrovicova D., Nadaský P., Tandlich R., Wilhelmi B.S., Cambray G. (2012): Analytical and aroma profiles of Slovak and South African meads. Czech J. Food Sci., 30: 241–246. The ba...
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2018
gc ms
Apricot fruits with rich aromatic profiles are appreciated by consumers for their flavor, sweetness and juiciness; these characteristics are strongly related to the variety and rip...
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2018
other
Repellents are a main tool to prevent the outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases that represents a threat for millions of people worldwide. Plant-based products are very promising, lo...
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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.