Peer-Reviewed Research Database
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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
Microbial cell factories
aeda
BACKGROUND: The market for beverages is highly changing within the last years. Increasing consumer awareness towards healthier drinks led to the revival of traditional and the crea...
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2024
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
Combination of plant and animal protein diet is becoming a valuable source of nutrition in the modern diet due to the synergistic functional properties inherent in these protein co...
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2024
gc ms
Water lilies, members of the Nymphaeaceae family, are globally cultivated aquatic plants known for their diverse colors and significant ornamental, economic, beverage, medicinal, a...
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2024
International journal of biological macromolecules
other
Lotus seed drill core powder starch (LCPS)-based active packaging films incorporated with cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and grapefruit essential oil-corn nanostarch Pickering emulsi...
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2024
aeda
Beer, as an ancient and widely consumed alcoholic beverage, holds a rich cultural heritage and history. In recent years, fruit beer has gained significant attention as a distinct b...
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2024
Food chemistry
other
Postharvest loquat fruit is susceptible to chilling injury (CI) under cold stress. In this study, the effects of phytosulfokine α (PSKα) on sugar, proline, polyamine and γ-aminobut...
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2024
Food chemistry
other
In this work, the MeJA-loaded gelatin/pullulan/chitosan composite biofilm was prepared to inhibit the chilling lignification of the loquat fruit during storage at 0 °C. The firmnes...
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2024
aeda
Lobster mushrooms, a type of wild edible mushroom that primarily grows in North America, have a distinctive aroma resembling seafood and are highly desired by fine dining establish...
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2024
aroma analysis
Lanzhou lily bulbs (<i>Lilium davidii</i> var. <i>unicolor</i>) are Chinese traditional edible fruits; however, industrial benefits are limited owing to ineffective post-harvest pr...
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2024
aroma analysis
<h4>Introduction</h4><i>Pyrrhoderma noxium</i> is a plant pathogen that causes economic losses in agricultural and forestry industries, including significant destruction to amenity...
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2024
other
The effects of cross-processing lingonberry press cake (LPC) (2.5-30 %, dw/dw) with herring co-products on protein yield, oxidative stability and color of pH-shift-produced protein...
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2024
pharmacology
Biologically active compounds, derived from various natural sources, have garnered significant attention due to their potential therapeutic applications [...].
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2024
G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
other
Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) produces tiny red berries that are tart and nutty in flavor. It grows widely in the circumpolar region, including Scandinavia, northern parts...
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2024
Food microbiology
other
Lingonberry is a common wild berry that is often sold as jams and beverages. It naturally contains high amounts of the weak acid preservative benzoic acid making it an interesting...
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2024
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
This study investigates the impact of key factors on the formation of odorants and sensory properties in mead. The effects of the honey type (acacia, buckwheat, linden), wort heati...
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2024
gc ms
Citrus fruits possess a distinctive aroma and flavor, with <i>Citrus aurantium</i> Changshan-huyou (CACH) standing out due to their considerable edible and medicinal value. However...
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2024
gc ms
The most effective methodologies for generating <i>Musa</i> spp. explants involve the utilization of plant tissue culture micropropagation techniques. However, the pervasive challe...
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2024
gc ms
Light-flavor Baijiu (LFB) fermentation is a representative spontaneous mixed-culture solid-state fermentation process in which sorghum is used as the raw material. Raw materials an...
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2024
Chemistry & biodiversity
other
Herein we describe the in situ inhibitory activity of three hybrid films (FL1, FL2, and FL3) against two wild strains of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Penicillium digitatum as...
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2024
other
Leaf-cutting ants (Formicidae; Atta spp., Acromyrmex spp.) cut off pieces of leaves and other plant tissue and feed it to their symbiotic fungi. As this foraging behavior poses an...
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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.