Peer-Reviewed Research Database
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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.
2026
Journal of ethnopharmacology
gc ms
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Magnoliae Officinalis Cortex, a commonly used Chinese medicinal herb, has a long history in traditional East Asian medicine and is widely employed i...
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2026
gc ms
<b>Background/Objectives:</b> <i>Teucrium polium</i> L. is widely used in traditional medicine and has been proposed as a source of antimicrobial adjuvants in the context of antimi...
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2026
gc ms
<i>Baccharis</i> species (Asteraceae) are widely used in South American traditional medicine and produce essential oils rich in bioactive terpenoids. This study investigated the ch...
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2026
gc ms
Medicinal and aromatic plants from the Comoros Islands are a potential source of unexploited bioactive compounds. This study investigates the chemical composition and biological pr...
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2026
gc ms
The sustainable management of plant-parasitic nematodes is a growing concern in agriculture due to the limitations of synthetic nematicides, such as environmental toxicity and resi...
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2026
gc ms
In this study, response surface methodology (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD) was employed to optimize the antioxidant activity of Citrus paradisi peel essential oil (C...
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2026
other
Salvia species are valued for their medicinal and aromatic properties, which largely arise from their volatile oils (VOs). The content and chemical composition of VOs depend on fac...
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2026
gc ms
To address gaps in the characterization of Roman chamomile (<i>Anthemis nobilis</i> L., Asteraceae)-an ethnobotanically and commercially important species-we profiled its essential...
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2026
Scientific reports
gc ms
Eucalyptus has been utilized in traditional Australian medicines for the treatment of various ailments and is also used in pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. Eucalyptus contains...
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2026
aroma analysis
Cambucá is a native and underexploited fruit from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest that is currently at risk of extinction. Given this, the objective was to determine the nutritional,...
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2026
gc ms
This study investigated the chemical composition and antifungal activity of essential oils (EOs) from five chemotypes of Eugenia uniflora (E. uniflora) collected in the state of Ri...
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2026
gc ms
The present study reports, for the first time, the chemical composition of the leaf essential oil (LEO) from <i>Aspilia rudis</i> as well as its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory a...
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2026
aroma analysis
Norisoprenoid compounds such as the damascones, damascenones, and megastigmatrienones are widely used in the flavor and fragrance industry. Their low natural abundance and the limi...
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2026
aroma analysis
Dihydro-β-ionone is a high-value volatile compound widely used in fragrances, cosmetics, and food-related applications, driving growing interest in its sustainable biosynthesis. In...
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2026
sensory panel
To address the low utilization and economic value of summer-autumn tea, the processing optimization and flavor formation of Emerald tea using sensory evaluation, <i>E</i>-senses, a...
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2026
gc ms
In this work, an archeological adhesive collected at Cantagrilli (near Florence) was chemically analyzed by applying gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, an...
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2026
sensory panel
Roasting is a critical process that influences the aroma of traditional teas. In this study, the effects of microwave roasting (MR), electric conduction roasting (ER), charcoal con...
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2026
gc ms
Most species belonging to the genus <i>Artemisia</i> are aromatic plants showing a broad diversity in their essential oil composition. <i>Artemisia rutifolia</i>, traditionally use...
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2026
gc ms
This study compares the chemical composition, antimicrobial effects, and antibiotic-potentiating capacity of three <i>Lauraceae</i> essential oils (EO): <i>Cryptocarya agathophylla...
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PMID: 41683870
DOI: 10.3390/ijms27031447
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2026
other
<b>Purpose:</b> The essential oil of <i>Hyptis crenata</i> (EOHc) contains several terpenes, many of which have anxiolytic-like activity. Thus, the aim of this study was to extract...
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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.