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
other
<h4>Background</h4>Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. is widely distributed across China, and the aroma of its peel is primarily determined by its volatile components. In this study, we...
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2024
gc ms
Halophilic archaea are a unique group of microorganisms that thrive in high-salt environments, exhibiting remarkable adaptations to survive extreme conditions. Archaeological wood...
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2024
Insect science
other
In moths, pheromone receptors (PRs) are crucial for intraspecific sexual communication between males and females. Moth PRs are considered as an ideal model for studying the evoluti...
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2024
Evolutionary applications
aroma analysis
The spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii and the cosmopolitan vinegar fly D. melanogaster feed on soft fruit and berries and widely overlap in geographic range. The presence...
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PMID: 39534538
DOI: 10.1111/eva.70042
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2024
aroma analysis
Chemical and sensory attributes play a vital role in evaluating the quality of grapes and wines. This study compared basic physicochemical parameters, organic acids, phenolic compo...
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2024
other
Floral scents play important ecological roles because they attract pollinators and seed-dispersers. Historically, humans have used plant volatiles, including floral scents, as food...
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2024
Journal of breath research
gc ms
Volatilomics is a powerful tool capable of providing novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of gastric cancer. The main objective of this study was to characterize the volatilomic sign...
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2024
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
other
Highly resolved measurements of primary and secondary oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and the AMOVOC sampler (A...
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2024
gc ms
Plants belonging to the genus <i>Curcuma</i> have shown promise in exerting antiviral activity. In this study, <i>Curcuma</i> sp. "Khamin Oi" (CKO), a traditional Thai medicinal he...
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2024
gc ms
<h4>Background and aims</h4>Curcuma aeruginosa, commonly known as "kha-min-dam" in Thai, holds significance in Asian traditional medicine due to its potential in treating various d...
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2024
pharmacology
<i>Curcuma wenyujin</i> is a member of the <i>Curcuma zedoaria</i> (zedoary, Zingiberaceae) family, which has a long history in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) due to its abunda...
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2024
other
In a continuing effort to understand reaction mechanisms of terpene synthases catalyzing initial anti-Markovnikov cyclization reactions, we solved the X-ray crystal structure of (+...
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2024
other
Sesquiterpenoids served as an important source for natural product drug discovery. Although genome mining approaches have revealed numerous novel sesquiterpenoids and biosynthetic...
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PMID: 38786705
DOI: 10.3390/jof10050350
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2024
Data in brief
gc ms
Aquilaria oil, specifically agarwood oil, is esteemed for its unique fragrance and potential therapeutic qualities, primarily attributed to the presence of significant chemical com...
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2024
other
<i>Lantana camara</i> is weed with a wide range of chemical constituents, including primary and secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, and terpenoi...
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PMID: 39684506
DOI: 10.3390/ijms252312788
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2024
gc ms
The study aims to evaluate the chemical composition and anti-microbial activities of essential oils (EOs) extracted from fresh and shed dried leaves of Eucalyptus tereticornis clon...
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2024
gc ms
Aim: Three factors that affect the chemical composition and perceptible aroma of Retsina—a distinguished Greek wine, crafted by infusing resin harvested from the Aleppo pine (Pinus...
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2024
gc ms
Humulus lupulus extracts have in their composition different molecules, such as polyphenols, α-acids, β-acids, and hydrocarbons, which contribute to the plant's medicinal propertie...
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2024
other
<i>Irpex lacteus</i> is an edible and medicinal macrofungus with significant biological activity and broad pharmaceutical prospects that has received increasing attention in recent...
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PMID: 39728342
DOI: 10.3390/jof10120846
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2024
pharmacology
In 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) challenged the world with a global outbreak that led to millions of deaths worldwide. Coronavirus disease 2019...
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PMID: 38543686
DOI: 10.3390/v16030320
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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.