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
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
A broad range of Peruvian chili peppers are available but not properly characterized. To increase the insight into their flavor compounds, a head space GC-MS fingerprinting (volati...
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2018
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
sensory panel
3-Isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) is a potent odorant present in grapes and wines that is reminiscent of green capsicum. Suprathreshold concentrations can lead to obvious vegetat...
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2018
BMC complementary and alternative medicine
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Identifying ornamental plants as new natural antioxidant and antimicrobial sources is always of great importance for the ornamental and horticultural industries. METHOD...
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2018
gc ms
peer-reviewedCentrifugation is a common milk pretreatment method for removal of Clostridium spores which, on germination, can produce high levels of butyric acid and gas, resulting...
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2018
Food microbiology
other
The ethanol content and esterase and alcohol acyltransferase activities are the limiting factors in the synthesis of ethyl esters in Camembert-type cheeses. This study aimed to inv...
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2018
Journal of dairy science
other
The aim of this study was to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the content of cholesterol oxidation products in traditional buttermilk after butter production. Cholesterol ox...
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2018
gc ms
Bulgur is enjoyed and rediscovered by many people as a stable food because of its color, flavor, aroma, texture, and nutritional and economical values. There is more than one type...
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2018
Food chemistry
sensory panel
The sensory-chemical profiles of Finnish honeys (labeled as buckwheat, cloudberry-bog, lingonberry, sweet clover, willowherb and multifloral honeys) were investigated using a multi...
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2018
Critical reviews in food science and nutrition
sensory panel
Buckwheat is a rich source of starch, proteins, minerals and antioxidants, and as such has become a popular functional ingredient incorporated in diverse recipes/products with part...
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2018
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
pharmacology
The phenolic profiles of 12 cruciferous vegetables (pakchoi, choysum, Chinese cabbage, kailan, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, rocket salad, red cherry radish, dai...
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2018
Molecular nutrition & food research
aeda
Bladder cancer is a significant health burden due to its high prevalence, risk of mortality, morbidity, and high cost of medical care. Epidemiologic evidence suggests that diets ri...
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2018
'American Dairy Science Association'
aroma analysis
peer-reviewedFlavor is one of the most important attributes of any fermented dairy product. Dairy consumers are known to be willing to experiment with different flavors; thus, many...
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2018
'MDPI AG'
gc ms
UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)Adding Flavor to Beverages with Non-Conventi...
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2018
Annals of science
other
This article reveals how nineteenth-century chemists and health reformers tried to eradicate the use of yeast in bread, claiming they had devised healthier and more sanitary ways t...
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2018
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
pharmacology
Different specialty extra virgin oils, produced by cold-pressing fruits/nuts (olive, pequi, palm, avocado, coconut, macadamia and Brazil nut) and seeds (grapeseed and canola), and...
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2018
gc ms
Phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables have achieved immense significance owing to the increasing evidence which signifying their activity for antioxidant and prevention of chroni...
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2018
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
pharmacology
The aim of the present research was to study the effect of convective drying on color, bioactive compounds, and antioxidant activity of berry fruits and to chemically characterize...
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2018
Jurnal Pengolahan Hasil Perikanan Indonesia
gc ms
Komponen volatil merupakan kelompok senyawa-senyawa volatil yang berpengaruh terhadap karakteristik flavor komoditas dan penerimaannya secara keseluruhan oleh konsumen karena penga...
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2018
gc ms
3-alkyl-2-methoxypyrazines (MPs) are a very important class of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), intensively characterizing the aroma of several food products including fruits and...
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2018
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
other
BACKGROUND: One of the main problems in the button mushroom industry is the rapid deterioration of fruit bodies after harvest. Today, nanotechnology has become a more reliable tech...
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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.