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
aroma analysis
<i>Huajiao</i> water (HW) has a wide range of applications in the new food service industry. However, few process and flavor studies have been conducted on HW. The aim of this stud...
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2024
BMC plant biology
other
In plant production, evaluation of salt stress protectants concerning their potential to improve growth and productivity under saline stress is critical. Bacillus subtilis (Bs) and...
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2024
other
Kombucha is a fermented beverage traditionally made from the leaves of <i>Camelia sinensis</i>. The market has drastically expanded recently, and the beverage has become more elabo...
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PMID: 38338619
DOI: 10.3390/foods13030484
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2024
aeda
Smoked Lapsang Souchong tea (SLST) is a distinctive black tea known for its smokey, fruity, and pine flavor. This study analyzed the aroma dynamic changes during the whole manufact...
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2024
aeda
Fried pepper sauce (FPS) is renowned among consumers for its distinct aroma profile and rich nutritional composition. However, the primary aroma components of FPSs, crucial for qua...
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PMID: 38769966
DOI: 10.1039/d4ra02343a
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2024
aeda
Hot air drying (HD), vacuum freeze drying (FD), and pilot-scale freeze drying (PSFD) are extensively used to prepare peach slices. However, the aroma of hot air drying and vacuum f...
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2024
Food chemistry
aeda
The characteristic aroma compounds of five-fold sweet orange oil were analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry combined with the odor aroma value (OAV) method. The resul...
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2024
other
Due to differences in raw materials and production processes, different spirits exhibit various flavor even if undergo distillation operation. In this study, sensory analysis could...
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2024
Food chemistry
aeda
Aroma is a crucial indicator of hop quality. This study analyzed the differences in aroma compound composition among six hop varieties from three regions: North America, Europe, an...
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2024
ISPEC Journal of Agricultural Sciences
gc ms
Aromatic plants are plants with a wide range of traditional uses. One of the areas of medical use is their consumption for nutritional purposes. Aromatic plants have been used for...
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2024
sensory panel
Aroma is one of the key factors for evaluating the quality of green tea. A tender aroma (NX) and floral-like aroma (HX) are two types of high-quality aroma of green tea. In this wo...
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PMID: 38928790
DOI: 10.3390/foods13121848
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2024
other
Essential oils (EOs) and plant extracts have demonstrated inhibitory activity against a wide range of pathogenic bacteria. In this study, the chemical composition of manuka, kanuka...
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PMID: 38370080
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3834
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2024
aeda
This study investigated the changes in the aroma of jasmine tea during storage. Solid-phase micro-extraction (SPME)-gas chromatography (GC)-mass spectrometry (MS) and stir bar sorp...
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PMID: 39200451
DOI: 10.3390/foods13162524
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2024
other
The conching process plays a key role in determining the sensory and rheological properties of dark chocolate. To further understand this process, changes in the chocolate mass dur...
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2024
gc ms
Strawberry wine production is a considerable approach to solve the problem of the Chinese concentrated harvesting period and the short shelf life of strawberries, but the appropria...
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PMID: 39335804
DOI: 10.3390/foods13182874
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2024
Food chemistry
other
Understanding mechanisms inside the conche is inevitable for targeted conching. Therefore, distribution and transition of aroma-active volatiles (acetic acid, benzaldehyde, (R,S)-(...
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2024
gc ms
<i>Drosophila suzukii</i> (Diptera: Drosophilidae), spotted-wing drosophila, poses a significant threat to soft-skinned fruit crops in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, as...
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2024
aeda
To explore the volatile characteristics of Z. bungeanum fruits during different developmental stages, the dynamical changes of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were detected by E-...
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2024
gc ms
A recent increase in the demand for pineapple necessitates the development of new varieties with superior flavour quality. In this study, we characterised the volatile profiles of...
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2024
aroma analysis
In this study, we characterized the aroma profiles of different Rougui Wuyi rock tea (RGWRT) aroma types and identified the key aroma-active compounds producing these differences....
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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.