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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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.
2020
gc ms
<i>Poria cocos</i>, an important medicinal and edible fungus, is well known in East Asia. The main active components are water-soluble polysaccharides (WPS) and triterpenoids. Due...
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2020
sensory panel
Melaleuca cajuputi essential oil (MCEO) from Pulau Buru (PBR), Indonesia, has been used as a functional flavor on Cajuputs Candy for years. Our recent study has explored thirteen o...
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2020
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Citrus is a genus belonging to the Rutaceae family and includes important crops like orange, lemons, pummelos, grapefruits, limes, etc. Citrus essential oils (CEOs) consist of some...
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PMID: 32168877
DOI: 10.3390/plants9030357
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aeda
The sensomics approach was applied to both green and red Toona sinensis (TS) varieties dried with different methods (freeze drying, solar drying, and oven drying) to elucidate thei...
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
Sensory-guided analysis of the volatile fraction isolated from a freshly prepared green tea beverage (Camellia sinensis; type Jingshan cha) revealed 58 odor-active compounds after...
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2020
PloS one
gc ms
Fenghuang Dancong tea covers the oolong tea category and is widely acknowledged for its unique floral and honey flavor. In order to characterize the volatile components in nine dif...
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2020
Journal of chemical ecology
aroma analysis
Antennal olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) for pheromone-related and plant volatile compounds were identified and characterized in the lucerne weevil, Sitona discoideus (Gyllenhal)...
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2020
Food chemistry
sensory panel
A selected Pichia fermentans strain was simultaneously and sequentially inoculated in synthetic and real juice with S. cerevisiae strains of different antagonistic activities in a...
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2020
'MDPI AG'
gc ms
3openInternationalInternational coauthor/editorTo differentiate white wines from Croatian indigenous varieties, volatile aroma compounds were isolated by headspace solid-phase micr...
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
sensory panel
Lavender and its products have excellent flavor properties. However, most studies focus on the aroma profiles of lavender essential oil (LEO). The volatiles in lavender extracts (L...
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2020
'Elsevier BV'
aroma analysis
© 2020 The Authors Capsaicin is the main bioactive compound in chili pepper that leads to the perception of “spiciness”. However, the effect of capsaicin on aroma release in the no...
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2020
Pakistan journal of biological sciences : PJBS
gc ms
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Encapsulation is an effective method to keep the quality of and avoid changes in flavors or essential oils due to oxidation, heating, volatilization, or c...
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2020
'MDPI AG'
gc ms
An HS-SPME GC-MS analysis of the volatile compounds adsorbed at the outer surface of lemon and grapefruit pectins obtained via the hydrodynamic cavitation of industrial waste strea...
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2020
'Wiley'
other
© 2020 The Authors. Journal of the Institute of Brewing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institute of Brewing & Distilling Hops are a key ingredient to add b...
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
There are mainly two options for the dealcoholization of beer: evaporation of ethanol by heat treatment, whereby desired aroma-active compounds are also removed, and stopped fermen...
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
aeda
The volatiles of cape gooseberry fruit (Physalis peruviana L.) were isolated by solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE), odor active compounds identified by gas chromatography-o...
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2020
gc ms
Changes in volatile compounds of fermented minced pepper (FMP) during natural fermentation (NF) and inoculated fermentation (IF) process were analyzed by the headspace-gas chromato...
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PMID: 32724601
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1616
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2020
Agronomy
gc ms
The main function of floral scent is to attract and guide pollinators, but it is also an important character in the ornamental plant industry. Several studies have considered the c...
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2020
aeda
Citrus tea is an emerging tea drink produced from tea and the pericarp of citrus, which consumers have increasingly favored due to its potential health effects and unique flavor. T...
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2020
Food chemistry
gc ms
Feijoa is a subtropical bush of the Myrtaceae family. It has unique fruit with organoleptic properties that make it an exotic fruit. Head space solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME...
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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.