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.
2013
gc ms
The Brazilian flora was widely used as source of food and natural remedies to treat various diseases. Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae), also known as annatto, urucu, or achiote, is a sy...
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2013
gc ms
<h4>Aims</h4>Though plant metabolic changes are known to occur during interactions with bacteria, these were rarely challenged for pharmacologically active compounds suitable for f...
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2013
Natural product communications
gc ms
Volatile oil extracted from the leaves of Pogostemon hirsutus Benth., a rare species from Anamalai hills of the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India was analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS....
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2013
pharmacology
The development of natural product agents with targeted strategies holds promise for enhanced anticancer therapy with reduced drug-associated side effects. Resveratrol found in red...
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2013
gc ms
In our ongoing efforts to develop new uses for wood-based waste streams, the growth inhibition activities of extracts obtained from Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) bark were examined a...
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2013
aroma analysis
Cyclic terpenoids form a large group of natural products with various biological functions. About 60,000 different cyclic terpenoids have been identified by now, containing scaffol...
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2013
Food chemistry
pharmacology
According to literature data, thiosemicarbazide and thiazolidinone moieties should enhance biological properties of coumarin. Antioxidant, metal-chelating and antifungal activities...
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2013
gc ms
The antimicrobial activity of Lavandula angustifolia essential oil was assessed in combination with 45 other oils to establish possible interactive properties. The composition of t...
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PMID: 23737850
DOI: 10.1155/2013/852049
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2013
Phytochemistry
gc ms
Cryptic speciation refers to cases where species are clearly genetically differentiated, but show little or no morphological differences. This study investigated whether volatile c...
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2013
pharmacology
The genus Cichorium (Asteraceae) is made up of six species with major geographical presence in Europe and Asia. Cichorium intybus, commonly known as chicory, is well known as a cof...
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PMID: 24379887
DOI: 10.1155/2013/579319
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2013
other
Plants exchange signals with other physical and biological entities in their habitat, a form of communication termed allelopathy. The underlying principles of allelopathy and secon...
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2013
other
Since prehistoric era, plant-derived drugs were much preferred due to their less side effects than drugs of synthetic origin. Bioassay-guided selection of active fraction of a plan...
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2013
other
3-Ishwarone, (1), a sesquiterpene with a rare ishwarane skeleton, was isolated from Peperomia scandens Ruiz & Pavon (Piperaceae). Its structure was unambiguously determined by 1D-...
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2013
Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug
other
BACKGROUND: The common practice of preparing patch tests in advance has recently been called into question by researchers. It has been established that fragrance compounds are vola...
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2013
other
Sphaeranthus indicus Linn. is from the aroma family Asteraceae. It is also known with other synonyms such as Munditika, Mundi, Shravana, Bhikshu, Tapodhana, Mahashravani, Shravanah...
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2013
pharmacology
Plants are attacked by various phytopathogenic fungi. For many years, synthetic fungicides have been used to control plant diseases. Although synthetic fungicides are highly effect...
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2013
gc ms
The hydro-distilled essential oil obtained from the flowering aerial parts of Lepidagathis fasciculata Nees was analyzed by gas chromatography equipped with a flame ionization dete...
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2013
Natural product communications
gc ms
The essential oils of leaves and twigs from the Euphorbiaceous Croton draconoides, C. urucurana and Julocroton triqueter were obtained and analyzed by GC and GC-MS. In total, 101 v...
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2013
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
gc ms
Traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) can be identified by experts according to their odors. However, the identification of these medicines is subjective and requires long-term exper...
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2013
The journal of physical chemistry. A
other
Direct aqueous photolysis of cis-pinonic acid (PA; 2-(3-acetyl-2,2-dimethylcyclobutyl)acetic acid; CAS Registry No. 473-72-3) by 280-400 nm radiation was investigated. The photolys...
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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.