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
aroma analysis
This study investigated the effect of immersion time of chicken breasts in potato starch (PS) coating containing amino acids (AAs) on the formation of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimid...
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PMID: 38254522
DOI: 10.3390/foods13020222
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2024
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
other
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) is one of the most commonly used antioxidants and is widely used in food, but whether it causes vascular damage has not been clearly studied. The pre...
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2024
pharmacology
<h4>Background/objectives</h4>Elevating ketone levels with therapeutic nutritional ketosis can help to metabolically manage disease processes associated with epilepsy, diabetes, ob...
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PMID: 39458521
DOI: 10.3390/nu16203526
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2024
gc ms
<b>Introduction.</b> <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> is a nosocomial pathogen with a high potential to cause food-borne infections. It is designated as a critical pathogen by the Wo...
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2024
gc ms
<title>Abstract</title> <p>Cruciferous plants are a rich source of various bioactive compounds which possess strong antioxidant potential. The potential antioxidant activity of br...
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2024
other
<h4>Introduction</h4>To identify how flavor is conceptualized with respect to cigarillos to illuminate areas of concordance and discordance and provide a pathway for the harmonizat...
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PMID: 38401171
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntae039
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2024
gc ms
The industrial value of various plants has been improved through the of plant cell culture systems with elicitation. In this study, the adventitious root of <i>Abeliophyllum distic...
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2024
Amerta Nutrition
sensory panel
Background: The profiling of a drink made from bay leaves combined guava juice has not been previously reported despite the positive health aspects of both plants.
Objectives: To...
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2024
aeda
Diabetes is a metabolic condition defined by abnormal blood sugar levels. Targeting starch-hydrolyzing enzymes and Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 (DPP-4) expressed on the surface of numero...
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2024
other
Ocimum basilicum L. (Lamiaceae), popularly known as basil, is an aromatic plant that extensively used for medicinal uses and to add a distinctive flavor and aroma to food. The pres...
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2024
Elsevier
other
Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.), of the Lamiaceae family, has long been a popular culinary and medicinal herb. However, the composition of the essential oil varies markedly betwe...
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2024
aroma analysis
The choice of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) genotypes determines key attributes such as yield, flavor, and adaptability, contributing significantly to the overall success and sustain...
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2024
Journal of medicinal food
pharmacology
Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) is distributed worldwide and used in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. Most applications are for the herb basil, recently the basil see...
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2024
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) is a widely used culinary herb. In this study, ethanol, dichloromethane, and sunflower oil were used separately as solvents with distinct polarities for...
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PMID: 39335921
DOI: 10.3390/foods13182993
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2024
other
Melissa officinalis L., an aromatic herb is commonly known as lemon balm for its lemon fragrance. This study reports the outcome of simulation experiment conducted inside the plant...
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2024
other
Biostimulant products are recognized for their ability to improve the agronomic parameters of plants and the qualitative and nutraceutical parameters of fruits and confer greater r...
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2024
University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
other
Research background. The addition of sweet apricot kernel powder, a by-product of apricot processing, to yoghurt appears to be particularly interesting option for the innovation of...
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2024
other
Background. The volatile oil present in star anise (Illicium verum) exhibits efficacy against various health issues such as bronchitis, colds, flu, indigestion, facial paralysis, a...
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2024
gc ms
The greater wax moth (GWM, <i>Galleria mellonella</i>) is a prevalent pest of the honeybee and a significant risk to both honeybee populations and honeycomb storage. Research on th...
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2024
other
<h4>Objective</h4>The threat of immune escape and the discovery of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, as well as the failure of certain conventional drugs that are already in use for...
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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.