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
The purpose of this study was to assess volatile component profiles and the antioxidant activity of propolis samples from eight different locations in Türkiye. α-Pinene, β-pinene,...
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PMID: 39479721
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.4399
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2024
other
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2024
gc ms
Lecanicillium fungicola is a pathogen of the commercial white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) and is the causal agent of dry bubble disease, which can cause severe economic los...
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2024
sensory panel
This study assessed the chemosensory characteristics of Chardonnay wines from the eastern foothills of the Ningxia Helan Mountain, China. Using Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) and Desc...
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2024
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
Honey truffle sweetener (HTS), a 121 amino acid protein is identified as a high-intensity sweetener found naturally occurring in the Hungarian Sweet Truffle Mattirolomyces terfezio...
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2024
gc ms
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2024
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
other
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a fundamentally important RNA modification for gene regulation, whose function is achieved through m6A readers. However, whether and how m6A readers pla...
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2024
Microbial pathogenesis
gc ms
Bacterial wilt of tomato caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a critical soilborne disease that drastically reduces yield. In the current study, an endophytic strain NEAU-CP5 with s...
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2024
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Energy-saving and low-carbon baking processes, as well as the need to determine the flavor-forming mechanisms of baked dried tofu, are becoming increasingly nece...
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2024
Journal of food science
aroma analysis
A new style of tofu coagulated through the fermentation of Lactobacillus plantarum SJ-L-1 was produced. L. plantarum SJ-L-1 with a high growth rate and excellent acid production ab...
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2024
other
Smear-ripened cheeses are characterized by a viscous, red-orange surface smear on their rind. It is the complex surface microbiota on the cheese rind that is responsible for the ch...
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PMID: 38254515
DOI: 10.3390/foods13020214
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2024
sensory panel
Ajwain essential oil (AEO) and Thyme essential oil (TEO) naturally contain bioactive compounds important for its growth and development. Various researchers have discovered that th...
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2024
other
<h4>Background</h4>BAHD acyltransferases are among the largest metabolic protein domain families in the genomes of terrestrial plants and play important roles in plant growth and d...
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2024
aeda
This study aimed to investigate the aroma effects of key volatile compounds in a new type of mulberry leaf Fu brick teas (MTs) and traditional Fu brick teas (FTs). Headspace solid–...
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PMID: 38928750
DOI: 10.3390/foods13121808
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2024
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
Drying is the final and essential step in tea processing. It contributes a lot to the formation of tea flavor quality by a series of complicated and violent thermochemical reaction...
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2024
Food chemistry
sensory panel
Ripening refers to the process of chemical change during the refinement of Keemun black tea (KBT) and is crucial in the formation of Keemun Congou black tea's quality. In this stud...
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2024
Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture
gc ms
The study examined the functional properties of lactic yeast-fermented Tartary buckwheat sprout with passion and pineapple juice (Tatary buckwheat sprout juice). Pineapple and pass...
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2024
aeda
In this study, the volatile components in 40 samples of Tartary buckwheat and common buckwheat from 6 major producing areas in China were analyzed. A total of 77 volatile substance...
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2024
gc ms
The differences in volatile flavor compounds (VFCs) between Monascus-solid-state fermented Tartary buckwheat (MSFTB) and Monascus-liquid-state fermented Tartary buckwheat (MLFTB) w...
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2024
gc ms
Background: Eurotium cristatum (E. cristatum) is the probiotic fungus in Fu-brick tea, with which fermentation brings a unique flavor and taste and health-promoting effects. Tartar...
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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.