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.
From the CompKitchen team
Original research
Featured
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.
2024
other
Essential oils (EOs), regarded as secondary metabolites from plants, possess effective antibacterial properties. This study investigates the antibacterial efficacy of seven citrus...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
other
Anthocyanin-based smart packaging has been widely used for food freshness monitoring, but it cannot meet the requirements of smart films with antibacterial properties. This study a...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 38890874
DOI: 10.3390/foods13111638
Full text on PMC
2024
gc ms
This study aimed to determine the optimal conditions for static headspace (HS) extraction of the volatile fraction of commercial spice - cinnamon bark. In the applied optimization...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
gc ms
This study used probiotics and micro-encapsulated clove and cinnamon oils to develop a functional cream-stuffed cake based on sweet potatoes flour and rice flour instead of wheat f...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
pharmacology
Biopolymers derived from biomass can provide the advantages of both biodegradability and functional qualities from a circular economy point of view, where waste is transformed into...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 39458696
DOI: 10.3390/polym16202868
Full text on PMC
2024
gc ms
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the latest arisen contagious respiratory pathogen related to the global outbreak of atypical pneumonia pandemic (COV...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
gc ms
<i>Piper mollicomum</i> Kunth (Piperaceae) plays a vital role in the preservation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by contributing to the regeneration of deforested areas. Recent s...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
gc ms
<i>Lippia alba</i> (Mill.) N.E. Brown (Verbenaceae), popularly known as "erva cidreira", is one of the most used plants in Brazilian folk medicine. The species has several chemotyp...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
Pesticide biochemistry and physiology
other
Cyperus rotundus L. is a widely distributed invasive weed plant with vast traditional medicinal uses. Herein, the methanolic root extract of C. rotundus and its fractions (n-hexane...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
aroma analysis
Lentinula edodes (L. edodes) is a globally popular edible mushroom because of its characteristic sulfur-containing flavor compounds. However, the formation of the volatile sulfur-c...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 39063263
DOI: 10.3390/foods13142179
Full text on PMC
2024
aroma analysis
Lipid hydrolysis and oxidation properties, lipid metabolites, and volatile flavors were investigated to elucidate the wet-aging process (1 h to 10 d) on lipid molecule transformati...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
Science (New York, N.Y.)
other
Liver mitochondria play a central role in metabolic adaptations to changing nutritional states, yet their dynamic regulation upon anticipated changes in nutrient availability has r...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
aroma analysis
Tea stems are a type of tea by-product, and a considerable amount of them is discarded during picking, with their value often being overlooked. To enhance the utilization of tea st...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 38338533
DOI: 10.3390/foods13030398
Full text on PMC
2024
gc ms
As a traditional Chinese medicine, <i>Angelica sinensis</i> is primarily sourced from cultivated plants due to the significant decline in wild resources. This shift raises concerns...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Angelica sinensis is an alpine medicinal plant that has been widely used as a general blood tonic and gynecological indications over 2000 years, which depend on the bioactive metab...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
Journal of chromatography. A
gc ms
Despite the therapeutic properties of capsaicin for some diseases, it shows some side effects for human health. The goal of this study was to develop a precise and accurate analyti...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
gc ms
The inhibitory potential of allelopathic plants is the subject of increasing research attention for their application in weed management. The sugarcane leaf is an agricultural wast...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
other
In this study, bacteria residing in the gut of the rice weevils (<i>Sitophilus oryzae</i> L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) feeding on aflatoxin-contaminated corn kernels were isolat...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 38921363
DOI: 10.3390/jof10060377
Full text on PMC
2024
other
<i>Ficus carica</i> is an economically important horticultural plant. Due to its abundant secondary metabolites, <i>F. carica</i> has gained interest for its applications in medici...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
2024
pharmacology
Drug development from medicinal plants constitutes an important strategy for finding natural anticancer therapies. While several plant secondary metabolites with potential antitumo...
Read full abstract on PubMed →
PMID: 39458949
DOI: 10.3390/ph17101307
Full text on PMC
All paper metadata — titles, authors, journals, years, DOIs — is public bibliographic information. Abstract snippets shown are truncated to fewer than 200 characters and link to the original source on PubMed or the publisher. We never reproduce full text.
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.