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.
2024
gc ms
This study presents the first chemical and enantioselective analyses of essential oils (EOs) derived from the leaves of two endemic species, <i>Gynoxys reinaldii</i> Cuatrec. and <...
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2024
gc ms
The present study belonged to an unfunded project, dealing on the systematic description of unprecedented essential oils (EOs), distilled from 12 species of genus <i>Gynoxys</i> Cu...
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2024
aeda
Black teas harvested during the summer season usually have the defect of low aroma intensity, resulting in unacceptability from consumers. The shaking and standing (SS) process is...
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2024
other
The essential oil obtained from the dry leaves of Gynoxys szyszylowiczii Hieron. was described in this study for the first time. The chemical analysis, conducted on two stationary...
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2024
gc ms
Nitrogen fertilization level and harvesting season significantly impact tea aroma quality. In this study, we analyzed the volatile organic compounds of fresh Jin Xuan (JX) tea leav...
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PMID: 38891004
DOI: 10.3390/foods13111776
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2024
gc ms
Prickly ash peel oleoresin (PPO) is a highly concentrated oil of Prickly ash essential oil and has a stronger aroma. However, its low water solubility, high volatility, difficulty...
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PMID: 38890954
DOI: 10.3390/foods13111726
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2024
aeda
Aroma is an indispensable factor that substantially impacts the quality assessment of black tea. This study aims to uncover the dynamic alterations in the sweet and floral aroma bl...
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PMID: 38472841
DOI: 10.3390/foods13050728
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2024
gc ms
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in food are key factors constituting their unique flavor, while the characteristics of VOCs in air-dried yak meat (AYM) from various regions of th...
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PMID: 39200553
DOI: 10.3390/foods13162626
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2024
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The volatile components emitted by fresh aromatic flowers of Plumeria rubra L., harvested in southern Ecuador during three different months were determined to evaluate the fluctuat...
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2024
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
Vicia kulingiana, an endemic species, serves as a wild and underutilized vegetable traditionally consumed in China. However, ethnobotanical and chemical studies of this species are...
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PMID: 38540906
DOI: 10.3390/foods13060916
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2024
aroma analysis
Cotton, a crucial economic crop, is also the preferred host plant of the mirid bug <i>Apolygus lucorum</i>. In our previous field experiments, we found that cotton cultivars Kelin...
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2024
gc ms
Volatile constituents are critical to the flavor of tea, but the changes in Enshi Yulu tea during the processing have not been clearly understood. Using headspace solid phase micro...
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PMID: 39683040
DOI: 10.3390/foods13233968
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2024
aeda
Aroma plays a pivotal role in the quality of black tea. However, the acceptability of black tea is greatly limited by the green off-flavor (GOF) resulting from the inappropriate pr...
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2024
aeda
Leaf spreading is a key processing step that affects the aroma formation of green tea. The effects of a single-light wavelength on the aroma and taste of tea have been extensively...
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PMID: 39123541
DOI: 10.3390/foods13152349
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2024
aeda
Flower scenting is an effective way to enhance the aroma of green tea (GT), including those osmanthus scented green tea (OSGT). However, the mechanism of aroma enhancement by scent...
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2024
gc ms
This work used headspace solid-phase microextraction with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) to analyze the volatile components of hydrosols of <i>Citrus × aurant...
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2024
gc ms
Batocera horsfieldi (Hope) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is an important pole borer pest. It causes serious harm to various hosts, particularly Juglans regia L. (Juglandaceae). In thi...
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2024
sensory panel
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of five varieties on the quality of herbaceous peony tea by physicochemical analysis, sensory evaluation, antimicrobial capacity an...
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PMID: 38690105
DOI: 10.1039/d3ra08144c
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2024
aeda
Chinese citrus Pu-erh tea is recognized for its unique flavor, which is composed of key aroma-active compounds and affected by taste-impact metabolites. In this study, the whole ci...
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2024
sensory panel
To improve the overall sensory evaluation of regular coffee, a mixture of β-CD/flavour CD powder was prepared by a freeze-drying method. Cyclodextrin inclusion complexes consist of...
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PMID: 39123551
DOI: 10.3390/foods13152359
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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.