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
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
sensory panel
Wine is a fermented beverage. Herbal-infused wine is beneficial to health due to its antimicrobial and anticancer properties. The constituents of these plants, including flowers, f...
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2024
ISPEC Journal of Agricultural Sciences
gc ms
Aromatic plants are plants with a wide range of traditional uses. One of the areas of medical use is their consumption for nutritional purposes. Aromatic plants have been used for...
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2024
pharmacology
The Brassicaceae genus consists of many economically important mustards of value for food and medicinal purposes, namely Asian mustard (<i>Brassica juncea</i>), ball mustard (<i>Ne...
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PMID: 39201724
DOI: 10.3390/ijms25169039
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2024
gc ms
<i>Lunaria annua</i> L. (Brassicaceae) is an ornamental plant newly identified in Europe as a promising industrial oilseed crop for its valuable very-long-chain monounsaturated fat...
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2024
gc ms
Red palm weevil (RPW) (<i>Rhynchophorus ferrugineus</i>) threatens most palm species worldwide. This study investigated the molecular responses of coconut (<i>Cocos nucifera</i>) l...
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2024
Journal of food science
other
Interspecific American-European hazelnut (Corylus americana × C. avellana) hybrids are being developed for the Upper Midwest region of the United States, which have potential econo...
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2024
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
gc ms
New interspecific hybrid hazelnut crosses between American (Corylus americana) and European (Corylus avellana) hazelnuts are being developed to support a commercial industry in the...
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2024
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
American-European hybrid hazelnuts (Corylus americana × Corylus avellana) are an emerging crop in the Upper Midwest of the United States that have been reported to have unique sens...
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2024
gc ms
Sitotroga cerealella is a serious pest of a wide range of stored cereal grains. An essential element of an integrated pest control approach is the application of plant oils as a su...
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2024
aroma analysis
Artisan bread, known for its simple recipes, natural ingredients, and traditional techniques, has seen a surge in demand, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. Small bakeries...
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PMID: 39682944
DOI: 10.3390/foods13233872
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2024
aroma analysis
The unique aromas of mutton stem from the chemical reactions between the characteristic precursors during cooking. This study aimed to establish the relationship of volatile compou...
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2024
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
sensory panel
Jinhua dry-cured ham (JDH) is a traditional fermented Chinese meat product. We studied the dynamic sensory and emotional profiles of JDHs obtained by five preparation methods and t...
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2024
pharmacology
Herbal extracts have been widely evaluated in poultry production for their beneficial effects and potential substitute for antibiotics, which contribute to AMR and risks to human h...
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PMID: 38612326
DOI: 10.3390/ani14071087
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2024
aroma analysis
The melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett), is a major invasive pest, widely distributed in the Asia-Pacific region and some parts of Africa. Melon fly attractants could imp...
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2024
mSystems
other
Strains across the Lactobacillaceae family form the basis for a trillion-dollar industry. Our understanding of the genomic basis for their key traits is fragmented, however, includ...
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2024
pharmacology
<h4>Background</h4>Artisanal cheeses usually contain a highly diverse microbial community which can significantly impact their quality and safety. Here, we describe a detailed long...
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2024
aeda
Gouda cheese was produced from pasteurized milk and ripened for 30 weeks (PM-G). By application of gas chromatography/olfactometry and an aroma extract dilution analysis on the vol...
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2024
Frontiers in Nutrition
gc ms
The intelligent senses (Electronic nose and tongue), were combined with headspace gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) and free amino acid were used in combinat...
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2024
aroma analysis
Microorganisms, proteins, and lipids play crucial and intricate roles in the aroma generation of aquatic products. To explore the impact of the interaction between microorganisms a...
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2024
gc ms
The quality of oysters is reflected by volatile organic components. To rapidly assess the freshness level of oysters and elucidate the changes in flavor substances during storage,...
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PMID: 39410145
DOI: 10.3390/foods13193110
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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.