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.
2017
PloS one
other
The meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius L. (Hemiptera, Aphrophoridae) is a commonly found vector of Xylella fastidiosa Wells et al. (1987) strain subspecies pauca associated wit...
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2017
threshold study
A method for the quantitation of six polyfunctional thiols, 4-methyl-4-sulfanylpentan-2-one (4MSP), 3-sulfanyl-4-methylpentan-1-ol (3S4MP), 3-sulfanyl-4-methylpentyl acetate (3S4MP...
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2017
gc ms
Enantiomers of 2-methylbutyl acetate were assayed in red and white commercial wines from various vintages and origins, using chiral gas chromatography (γ-cyclodextrin), revealing t...
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2017
gc ms
Recent studies suggest that electronic cigarette (e-cig) flavors can be harmful to lung tissue by imposing oxidative stress and inflammatory responses. The potential inflammatory r...
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2017
'IntechOpen'
aroma analysis
During the distillation of the fermented fruit mash or juice, ethanol and water are the carriers of a huge number of the other volatile aroma compounds. Unique and distinctive flav...
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2017
gc ms
Citrus bacterial canker (CBC) caused by <i>Xanthomonas citri</i> subsp. <i>citri</i> (<i>Xcc</i>), is the most devastating of the citrus diseases worldwide. During our study, we fo...
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2017
Food & function
pharmacology
Oleuropein is the most important phenolic compound present in olive cultivars, but it is scarcely present in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) due to its high hydrophilicity and degrad...
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2017
EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority
other
This scientific opinion of the EFSA Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF Panel) deals with the safety assessment of dimethyl carbonate use...
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2017
Nutrients
pharmacology
The transcription factor NRF2 (nuclear factor-E2-related factor 2) orchestrates major cellular defense mechanisms including phase-II detoxification, inflammatory signaling, DNA rep...
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PMID: 29258247
DOI: 10.3390/nu9121371
Full text on PMC
2017
other
This study aimed to analyze the antiproliferative and genotoxic potential of synthetic food flavorings, nature identical passion fruit and artificial vanilla. This assessment used...
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2017
other
Rapeseed meal is a cheap and abundant raw material, particularly rich in phenolic compounds of biotechnological interest. In this study, we developed a two-step bioconversion proce...
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2017
Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
other
Chinese propolis (CP) is known as a health food but its beneficial effects in protecting cardiomyocytes remain elusive. Here, we investigated the effects of CP and its active compo...
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PMID: 28337227
DOI: 10.1155/2017/7074147
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2017
Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety
pharmacology
The ubiquitous compound 4-hydroxy-3-methoxycinnamic acid, also known as ferulic acid (FA), constitutes a bioactive ingredient of many foods that may offer beneficial effects agains...
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2017
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
Purple sweet potato was fermented into alcoholic beverage. By using LC-MS analysis, 12 types of anthocyanins were found in the purple sweet potato alcoholic beverage (PSPFAB); thes...
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2017
pharmacology
Nuclear receptors such as the estrogen receptors (ERα and ERβ) modulate the effects of the estrogen hormones and are important targets for design of innovative chemotherapeutic age...
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2017
other
The metabolite profiles and distributions of procyanidin B2 were qualitatively described using UPLC-DAD-ESI-IT-TOF-MS<sup>n</sup> without help of reference standards, and a possibl...
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2017
'IntechOpen'
other
Phenolic compounds are secondary metabolites abundant in our diet. These compounds may affect positively or negatively the sensory characteristics of food with important impacts on...
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2017
Università degli Studi di Milano
other
In this thesis five experimental studies were reported with the objective to improve the knowledge and provide new solutions for different and important aspects of dairy cow nutrit...
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2017
'Universitat Politecnica de Valencia'
other
Tesis por compendioNew tendencies in the development of innovative food packages could affect product microbial stability during storage. In this sense, antifungal systems such as...
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2017
Food chemistry
other
The fat content and the fatty acid composition of the roe of European catfish (Silurus glanis) wild specimens captured in the Lambro river basin (Como, Northern Italy) were investi...
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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.