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
gc ms
In the Azores archipelago (Portugal), forest operations and wood industry generate large amounts of <i>Cryptomeria japonica</i> biomass residues (CJBR), which can be used to produc...
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2024
Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences
gc ms
Piper colubrinum Link. is an underexplored crop regarding its metabolites and therapeutic attributes. Current study aimed to identify the possible volatile and non-volatile metabol...
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2024
other
In this work, we studied <i>Tanacetum vulgare</i>, <i>Tanacetum parthenium</i>, and <i>Tanacetum corymbosum</i> (Asteraceae) cultivated at the Ghirardi Botanic Garden (Toscolano Ma...
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2024
gc ms
Larvicidal, ovicidal, and repellent activities of the essential oil extracted by hydrodistillation from the leaves of the endemic Ethiopian plant <i>Leucas stachydiformis</i> (Hoch...
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PMID: 38586242
DOI: 10.1155/2024/1051086
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2024
gc ms
<i>Aspergillus flavus</i> is a cosmopolitan saprophytic fungus that infests several foodstuffs and is associated with adverse effects in humans. In Senegal, significant losses of g...
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PMID: 39194916
DOI: 10.3390/jof10080591
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2024
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Plants are valuable resources for drug discovery as they produce diverse bioactive compounds. However, the chemical diversity makes it difficult to predict the biological activity...
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2024
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Folk medicine, rooted in historical practice, has long been used for medicinal purposes, emphasizing the need to ensure the safety, quality, and efficacy of herbal medicines. This...
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2024
gc ms
Propolis is a bee product mainly consisting of plant resins and is used by bees to maintain the structural integrity of the colony. Propolis is known to contribute to bee health vi...
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2024
gc ms
Botanical pesticides are safe and widely used in pest management. <i>Curcuma angustifolia</i> belongs to the family Zingiberaceae and is a rhizomatous medicinal herb. Following rhi...
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2024
Plant methods
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Single-cell analysis, a rapidly evolving field, encounters significant challenges in detecting individual cells within complex plant tissues, particularly oil cells (OC...
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2024
The Psychiatric quarterly
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Eating disorders frequently accompany autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One such novel eating disorder is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). This study compares the e...
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2024
Respiratory medicine
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a bronchoscopic treatment for severe asthma. Although multiple trials have demonstrated clinical improvement after BT, optimal patient se...
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2024
gc ms
<i>Artemisia absinthium</i> L., is a plant with established pharmacological properties, but the <i>A. absinthium</i> root extract (AARE) remains unexplored. The aim of this study w...
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PMID: 39770489
DOI: 10.3390/ph17121646
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2024
gc ms
Spices played crucial and variable roles in traditions, culture, history, religious ceremonials and festivals along with fetching food flavor and microbial protection globally due...
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2024
aroma analysis
<h4>Background</h4>The oils obtained from the seeds of <i>Nigella sativa</i>, also named black cumin, are rich in bioactive compounds that strengthen immunity and support human hea...
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2024
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Terpenoids are a class of structurally complex, naturally occurring compounds found predominantly in plant, animal, and microorganism secondary metabolites. Classical terpenoids ty...
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2024
gc ms
The development of selective extraction protocols for <i>Cannabis</i>-inflorescence constituents is still a significant challenge. The characteristic <i>Cannabis</i> fragrance can...
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2024
gc ms
<b>Background:</b> Food chemical antioxidants have demonstrated protective effects against reactive oxygen species and free radicals, but present in excess, harmful consequences mi...
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PMID: 39633960
DOI: 10.1155/tswj/5552496
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2024
gc ms
Many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are used to produce various commercial products with aromas mimicking natural products. The VOCs responsible for aromas have been identified...
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2024
other
LWT - Food Science and Technology 191 (2024) 115681Available online 28 December 20230023-6438/© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under th...
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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.