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.
2021
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
The stress response in the brain is not fully understood, although stress is one of the risk factors for developing mental disorders. On the other hand, the stimulation of the olfa...
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2021
aroma analysis
Peach is a delicious food preferred by consumers and widely used in the manufacture of peach juice, peach juice concentrate, peach jam, dried fruit, puree, etc. Alternatively, peac...
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2021
Frontiers in genetics
other
Dendrobium officinale is a kind of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Its flowers could be used as health care tea for its aroma flavor and medicinal value. Most recent studies d...
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2021
'IntechOpen'
other
Citrus essential oils (CEOs) and their constituent compounds are being reported to have multifarious activities. In this chapter an attempt is made to discuss the insecticidal acti...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Thymus vulgaris</i> L. (thyme), <i>Origanum majorana</i> L<i>.</i> (marjoram), and <i>Origanum vulgare</i> L<i>.</i> (oregano) were used to determine whether light modification...
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2021
Journal of plant physiology
other
Silk tree, Albizia julibrissin Duraz, is an old ornamental plant and extensively cultivated in Asia. Previous works have discovered that the terpenoids were the dominating compound...
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2021
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aeda
Chardonnay marc, consisting of grape skins, seeds, and stems, is a coproduct of grape juice production for Chardonnay wine making. The discovery that marc contains a rich source of...
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2021
aroma analysis
Black tea aroma is one of the essential attributes in determining the quality of black tea. <i>β</i>-Glucosidases were investigated for their ability to enhance the aroma of black...
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PMID: 34423025
DOI: 10.1155/2021/5542109
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2021
gc ms
The present study was conducted to evaluate the anticorrosive and antioxidant activities of essential oil from <i>Withania frutescens</i> L. In the present study, the extraction of...
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2021
aeda
The aroma-active compounds in the extra, first, and third grades of ylang-ylang essential oils (YYEO) from Comoros and Madagascar were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectro...
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2021
gc ms
In this work, the effect of pulsed electric field (PEF) pre-treatment on the extractability in green solvents (i. e., ethanol-water mixture and propylene glycol) of target aroma an...
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2021
Food chemistry
gc ms
Although aged fragrance is the most outstanding quality characteristic of dark tea, its formation still is not much clear. Thus, the volatiles of Qingzhuan tea (QZT) during the who...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Freesia hybrida</i> is a group of cultivars in the genus <i>Freesia</i> with a strong floral scent composed of diverse volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this study, the VOCs...
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2021
gc ms
<i>Citrus</i> species of plants are among the most commercially cultivated crops, mainly for their fruit. Besides, the generally consumed flesh inside the fruit, the peel is quite...
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2021
aeda
Abstract This study used litchi (Heiye) wine and distilled spirit as raw experimental materials to analyze the volatile aroma compounds. Qualitative and quantitative determination...
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PMID: 34760225
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.2361
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2021
Veterinary parasitology
other
The current study assayed the toxicity of Laurus nobilis essential oil and crude extracts obtained using solvents of increasing polarity (cyclohexane, acetone and ethanol), on two...
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2021
gc ms
A combined untargeted and targeted approach was established for fingerprinting volatile organic compounds in winter jujubes from eight regions of China. Volatiles, including alcoho...
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2021
aroma analysis
Cyperus esculentus tubers are the raw material to prepare tigernut milk (horchata), which can be marketed under Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) “C hufa de Valencia”. The aim...
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2021
Food chemistry
aeda
Aroma compounds in Cascade and Chinook hops harvested from multiple Virginia locations were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry (GC-MS-O) and aroma extr...
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2021
Food chemistry
gc ms
Chiral volatile compounds are known to be distributed in teas at various enantiomeric ratios. However, the performance of each enantiomer, including aroma characteristics, aroma in...
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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.