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
<i>Ranunculus hirtellus</i>, also known as crowfoot (buttercup), has a rich tradition of use in various biological contexts. While antibacterial studies on extracts from this plant...
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2024
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi, popularly known as "Pink pepper", is a plant native to Brazil. The objective of this work was to analyze the chemical composition and the antioxidan...
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2024
other
The tricyclic-aromadendrene-type sesquiterpenes are widely distributed and exhibit a range of biological activities, including anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antioxidant, antibacter...
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PMID: 39334899
DOI: 10.3390/biom14091133
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2024
gc ms
In northeast China, the invasive woodwasp., <i>Sirex noctilio</i>, attacks <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> var. <i>mongolica</i> Litv and often shares habitat with native <i>Sirex nitobei<...
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2024
gc ms
Plant-endophytic fungi are widely distributed and highly diverse, with many of them capable of influencing plant growth and development, which is related to the production of volat...
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PMID: 39590673
DOI: 10.3390/jof10110754
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2024
gc ms
Since hop secondary metabolites have a direct correlation with the quality of beer and other hop-based beverages, and the volatile fraction of hop has a complex composition, requir...
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2024
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry
aroma analysis
The culture filtrate extract of golden bootleg (Phaeolepiota aurea) exhibited strong antifungal activity in a bioassay for volatile compounds. Purification of active compounds thro...
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2024
other
Essential oil (EO) of <i>Salvia</i> spp. has been widely used for culinary purposes and in perfumery and cosmetics, as well as having beneficial effects on human health. The presen...
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2024
aroma analysis
In this work, phytochemical analysis on different extracts of <i>Roccella tinctoria</i> DC. was reported using different techniques with respect to the past. Twenty volatile and th...
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2024
gc ms
The resin essential oil (REO) of the Tunisian Araucaria heterophylla trunk bark was investigated for its chemical composition. Then, it was evaluated for its insecticidal and allel...
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2024
other
Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i>) produces numerous diterpenoid phytoalexins that are important in defense against pathogens. Surprisingly, despite extensive previous investigations, a ma...
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2024
sensory panel
Purpose Piling is a critical process for the formation of raw Liupao tea (RLT) flavor quality. However, given the unclear changes in the flavor quality of RLT during the piling pro...
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2024
other
Terpenoids are an intriguing class of natural products with diverse structures and biological activities whose complexity stems, in large part, from terpene synthases (TPSs). These...
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2024
other
Labdane-related diterpenoids (LRDs) in fungi are a pharmaceutically important, but underexplored family of natural products. In the biosynthesis of fungal LRDs, bifunctional terpen...
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PMID: 38590534
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.20.65
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2024
other
<i>Torreya grandis</i> (<i>T. grandis</i>, Taxaceae) is a well-known nut tree species. Its fruit aril and leaves possess a unique aroma, making it an ideal natural raw material for...
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2024
Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) have broad applications in biomedicine, biocontrol, and the food industry. In this study, whole-genome sequencing and annotation of Taiwanofungus...
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PMID: 39728323
DOI: 10.3390/jof10120826
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2024
BMC plant biology
other
BACKGROUND: Cinnamomum cassia Presl, classified in the Lauraceae family, is widely used as a spice, but also in medicine, cosmetics, and food. Aroma is an important factor affectin...
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2024
Chemistry & biodiversity
aroma analysis
The chemical compositions of the essential oils (EOs) of roots, young and old leaves and stems, and flowers of Pittosporum tobira (Thunb.) W.T. Aiton cultivated in Tunisia and of t...
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2024
Chemistry & biodiversity
other
This study reports on the chemical composition and antileishmanial and anticandidal activities of volatile oils (VOs) of Schinus molle dried leaves (SM), Cinnamomum cassia branch b...
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2024
Vitamins and hormones
other
Beta-caryophyllene is an abundant terpene in cannabis, cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, and citrus fruit, delivering a striking, woody-spicy, like cloves and a sweet fruity aroma. B...
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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.