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
Food chemistry
aeda
The odour-active compounds of feijoa (Acca sellowiana), were isolated by Solvent-Assisted Flavour Evaporation (SAFE). By application of GC-O and the aroma extract dilution analysis...
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2020
aeda
Longjing tea is the most famous premium green tea, and is regarded as the national tea in China, with its attractive aroma contributing as a prime factor for its general acceptabil...
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2020
gc ms
Spiced beef is a representative traditional Chinese processed beef product. In order to establish quality evaluation of aroma profile, the widely accepted and characteristic volati...
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2020
gc ms
Small white apricot is well known as a famous fresh fruit and even a folk medicine in Xinjiang. To investigate nutritive value, antioxidant activity, and flavor of small white apri...
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2020
sensory panel
South Africa has a traditional heritage of using indigenous herbal teas, and the demand for herbal teas motivated by the functional health benefits has far exceeded global supply....
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PMID: 32295285
DOI: 10.3390/foods9040496
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2019
Sensors
other
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by plants are closely associated with plant metabolism and can serve as biomarkers for disease diagnosis. Huanglongbing (HLB), also known...
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2019
PLoS ONE
other
Iodine biofortification has been gaining interest in recent years as a sustainable and innovative approach to eradicate iodine deficiency disorders. Studying the impact of iodine b...
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2019
Molecules
aroma analysis
To better understand wine aroma persistence, the nasal cavity of nine volunteers was monitored by Proton Transfer Reaction-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) after they...
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2019
Molecules
gc ms
. Jinsixiaozao (JS) were analyzed under different cold storage periods via headspace-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS). Results identified 53 peaks that corr...
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2019
BMC Plant Biology
aroma analysis
BACKGROUND: Essential oils (EOs) of Lavandula angustifolia, mainly consist of monoterpenoids and sesquiterpenoids, are of great commercial value. The multi-flower spiciform thyrse...
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2019
Molecules
gc ms
T. L. Wu et Senjen (FALX.). However, FAL, which always has a much higher price because of its better quality, is often confused with FALX. in the market. As volatile oil is the mai...
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2019
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
New herbicides based on natural products are claimed to address weed resistance and environmental concerns related to synthetic herbicides. In our previous studies, certain volatil...
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2019
Journal of economic entomology
gc ms
The sweet potato whitefly Bemisia tabaci Genn (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) has been recorded to differentially prefer rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) varieties in commercial fields i...
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2019
Food chemistry
gc ms
We investigated the dynamic changes in norisoprenoids and phenylalanine derivatives in off-vine Vidal blanc. Glycosidically bound as well as free-form volatile compounds were ident...
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2019
Chemistry & biodiversity
gc ms
A collection of nine Myrtus communis samples from different localities of Sicily was evaluated. Morphological traits and production characteristics have been chosen as parameters t...
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2019
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
In this study a Retronasal Aroma Simulator was employed to compare the release of volatiles from two different white wine matrices (TW: table, SW: sweet) with and without the addit...
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2019
Journal of food biochemistry
gc ms
Interactions of the flavoring compounds hexyl acetate (HxAc), heptyl acetate (HpAc), linalyl formate (LiFo), linalyl acetate (LiAc), geraniol, linalool, limonene, and myrcene with...
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2019
Food chemistry
gc ms
The interactions between flavors (hexyl acetate [HxAc], heptyl acetate [HpAc], linalyl formate [LiFo], linalyl acetate [LiAc], geraniol, linalool, limonene and myrcene) and soy pro...
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2019
Food science & nutrition
gc ms
Flavor is one of the most important quality properties of cacao beans, playing a key role in the admissibility of cocoa products, such as cocoa powder. This study examined the indu...
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PMID: 31890167
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1244
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2019
Medycyna pracy
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Stress is a result of disturbed homeostasis and can contribute to the development of many diseases. One of the methods of combating stress is aromatherapy, which uses e...
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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.