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
aroma analysis
The use of untoasted woods was not previously considered for white wine aging. Thus, this work focuses on the comparative analysis of phenolic composition, wood volatile compounds...
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2024
gc ms
Phthalates or phthalate esters (PAEs) have become a serious concern due to their toxicity and risks of migration from contact materials to food matrices and the environment. The ai...
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2024
aroma analysis
Sunlight exposure of grape clusters is frequently reported to influence grape aromas greatly. Among them, the effects of full shading (FS) of clusters on fruit quality and volatile...
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2024
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aeda
The clustered mountain mint, Pycnanthemum muticum, is a pleasant-smelling, native North American plant. Despite its wide geographical presence across the United States and Canada,...
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2024
pharmacology
Petroleum-based plastic packaging materials have negative impacts on the environment and food safety. Natural biopolymer-based food packaging materials are the proper substitutes f...
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PMID: 39517269
DOI: 10.3390/foods13213485
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2024
other
Volatilomics is the study of the total biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) produced by an organism. This field has been used to assess organism and ecosystem health, as wel...
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2024
gc ms
Inflammatory bowel diseases are characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and alterations in the gut microbiota composition. <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i>, which secretes oute...
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2024
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sensory panel
Typically, Swiss-type cheese is made from cow milk. However, in the present work an attempt to expand the sheep supply chain and product offering in this field was made by developi...
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2024
aroma analysis
Investigating the diversity of a given species could give clues for the development of autochthonous starter cultures. However, few studies have focused on the intraspecies diversi...
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2024
pharmacology
Oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD) are a group of lesions carrying the risk of developing into cancer. The gold standard to predict which lesions are more likely to underg...
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2024
gc ms
Traditional medicine uses the roots and rhizomes of <i>Polygonum bistorta</i> L. (Polygonaceae) to treat cough, bronchitis, and other respiratory infections. Our goal was to gain i...
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2024
other
The conching process plays a key role in determining the sensory and rheological properties of dark chocolate. To further understand this process, changes in the chocolate mass dur...
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2024
Environmental science and pollution research international
gc ms
The present study focused on the optimization of the QuEChERS extraction method for the determination of 61 pesticide residues and associated health risk assessment in 144 samples...
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2024
Scientific reports
gc ms
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastics, which has risks for human health. This study aimed to in...
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2024
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
other
This study investigated the effects of hot air drying (HAD), infrared-assisted hot air drying (IR-HAD), vacuum freeze drying (VFD), and pulsed-vacuum drying (PVD) on the drying cha...
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2024
other
This study introduces a multidisciplinary approach to investigate bioactive food metabolites often overlooked due to their low concentrations. We integrated an in-house food metabo...
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2024
gc ms
Strawberry wine production is a considerable approach to solve the problem of the Chinese concentrated harvesting period and the short shelf life of strawberries, but the appropria...
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PMID: 39335804
DOI: 10.3390/foods13182874
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2024
gc ms
Strawberries are valued for their aroma, which is mainly determined by volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Wild strawberries, with broader and more intense VOC profiles, are especia...
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2024
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
pharmacology
Dragon fruit, which is native to northern South America and Mexico, has become a significant crop in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including Vietnam, China, and Austr...
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2024
Croatian Dairy Union
other
In this study, cheese chips were made using full-fat, half-fat, and non-fat Dil cheeses. Full-fat chips were brighter and yellower. Additionally, full-fat chips were also harder, m...
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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.