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.
2022
Chemical senses
other
Insects rely on olfactory receptors to detect and respond to diverse environmental chemical cues. Detection of semiochemicals by these receptors modulates insect behavior and has a...
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2022
aroma analysis
Aroma is considered a fundamental component of fruit flavor. Variations in the composition and content of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contribute to noticeable differences in...
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2022
gc ms
Knowing in detail how the white and red wine aroma compounds behave under various storage conditions and especially at high temperature is important in order to understand the chan...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The hoppy aroma in beer is characterized by an overall pleasant profile. The impacts of five Czech hop cultivars, Rubin, Saaz, Vital, Harmonie, and Kazbek, were tested on the hop a...
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PMID: 36010520
DOI: 10.3390/foods11162520
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2022
gc ms
In the present study, we investigated the cytotoxic effects of <i>Athyrium hohenackerianum</i> ethanolic extract (AHEE) on the proliferation of breast, lung, and colon cancer cells...
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PMID: 35692581
DOI: 10.1155/2022/2055773
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2022
aeda
Bound volatiles are odorless aroma reservoirs that modify flavor when released during food processing, and their determination is important to understand the aroma of fruit beverag...
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2022
gc ms
It is well known that plant elicitors can induce plant defense against pests. The herbivore-induced plant volatile (HIPV) methyl salicylate (MeSA), as a signaling hormone involved...
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2022
aeda
In recent years, plant metabolomics and microbiome studies have suggested that the synthesis and secretion of plant secondary metabolites are affected by microbial-host symbiotic i...
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2022
'Frontiers Media SA'
aroma analysis
The volatilome of hazelnuts (Corylus avellana L.) encrypts information about phenotype expression as a function of cultivar/origin, post-harvest practices, and their impact on prim...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is one of the most popular spices in the world, with its unique odor. Due to its health benefits, ginger is also widely used as a dietary supple...
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PMID: 35681361
DOI: 10.3390/foods11111611
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2022
gc ms
The honeycomb composition is very complex, containing honey, royal jelly, pollen, and propolis, and thus contains a large number of bioactive ingredients, such as polyphenols and f...
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PMID: 37430955
DOI: 10.3390/foods11203204
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2022
Food chemistry
aeda
The present study sought to characterize the composition of volatile aroma compounds and key aroma-active compounds of dried Hanyuan Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The volatile aroma compo...
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2022
gc ms
Oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) is mainly cultivated, both as fresh and dried herb, for several purposes, such as ailments, drugs, and spices. To evaluate the influence of some dryin...
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2022
Bulletin of entomological research
aroma analysis
In this study, we present the first characterization of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) released from infested olive leaves. The gall midge Dasineura oleae is a specific...
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2022
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Our study's overarching goal was to determine which O. basilicum cell suspensions approach yielded the most insecticidal and R. ferrugineus-inhibitory volatile secondary metabolite...
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2022
Food chemistry
gc ms
Economically feasible and effective hop drying strategies are urgently needed to respond to the increasing number of microbrewers in US. In this study, hops were dried by dehydrato...
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2022
other
The possibilities of the practical utilization of essential oils (EOs) from various plant species in the food industry have attracted the attention of the scientific community. Fol...
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2022
'African Journals Online (AJOL)'
gc ms
ABSTRACT. Essential oils of Lippia adoensis Hochst ex. Walp leaf, Ocimum sanctum Linn leaf and stem and mixture of two plants from Bishoftu and Debre Berhan (Ethiopia) were analyze...
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2022
threshold study
Several non-canonical, methylated terpenes have been described as products of genetically modified <i>Escherichia coli</i> recently, and the aroma properties of 28 odor-active meth...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The oolong tea aroma is shown to consist of cultivar aroma and technical aroma in this study based on the aroma differences between oolong tea products of cultivars of different su...
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PMID: 36141008
DOI: 10.3390/foods11182880
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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.