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.
2023
ACS omega
other
Two food flavors, furfuryl mercaptan (2-FFT) and difurfuryl disulfide (DFDS), were investigated as green corrosion inhibitors for the N80 steel in a CO2-saturated solution containi...
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2023
sensory panel
Excessive consumption of cookies has been linked to harmful health outcomes owing to the presence of refined carbohydrates and heat-induced toxicants including end products of lipi...
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2023
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aeda
Storage is a key factor controlling the quality of Jiangxiangxing baijiu, and storage time and the type of storage container play crucial roles in shaping the baijiu's distinct fla...
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2023
gc ms
Each individual has a unique skin tone based on the types and quantities of melanin pigment, and oxidative stress is a key element in melanogenesis regulation. This research sought...
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2023
other
Licorice is a remarkable traditional Chinese medicine obtained from the dried root and rhizomes of the Glycyrrhiza genus, and t has been utilized in China for many centuries. It co...
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2023
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
pharmacology
Plumula Nelumbinis, the green embryo of a lotus seed, is widely consumed in China as a well-known food with medicinal effects. In this study, 14 alkaloids, including 4 new and 10 k...
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2023
Analytica chimica acta
other
Ion-mobility (IM) separations-performed in conjunction with mass spectrometry (MS)-increase selectivity of MS analyses. However, IM-MS instruments are costly, and many laboratories...
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2023
other
The EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) was requested to evaluate the safety of the smoke flavouring Primary Product proFagus Smoke R714 (SF-001), for which a renewa...
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2023
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
other
This study demonstrates hierarchical instabilities in thin films. The hierarchical instabilities display three morphological characteristics: (1) windmill-like patterns at the macr...
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2023
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
other
The crystal structure of a commercially available anthracene derivative, anthracene-9-thiocarboxamide, is reported here for the first time. The compound undergoes a [4+4] cycloaddi...
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2023
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
threshold study
Chemical irritants, like piperine, have the potential to increase human perception of tastes and odours, including saltiness. This cross-modal interaction could help the food indus...
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PMID: 36673388
DOI: 10.3390/foods12020296
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2023
Drug and chemical toxicology
other
Tropical vegetables remain one of the major sources of functional foods and nutraceuticals, while their constituent phytochemicals, especially alkaloids, have been reported to exhi...
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2023
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
gc ms
N-nitrosamines are strong carcinogens that are widely present in the environment. This study developed a method, and analyzed the concentrations of volatile N-nitrosamines (VNAs) i...
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2023
Food science & nutrition
pharmacology
Syzygium zeylanicum L. (DC) (SZL) has been used in antidiabetes treatment for ages. However, the scientific evidence of active agents that have antidiabetic activity and response a...
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PMID: 37457151
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3373
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2023
Metabolites
other
Dietary fruits and vegetables play a vital role as food and drugs and are the main sources of antioxidant defences against degenerative diseases, such as brain dysfunctions, cardio...
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2023
other
The degradation of the prevalent environmental contaminants benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) along with a common co-contaminant methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) by...
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2023
gc ms
Sapindales is a large order with a great diversity of nectaries; however, to date, there is no information about extrafloral nectaries (EFN) in Sapindaceae, except recent topologic...
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2023
other
Aroma is an important commercial trait that determines fruit quality and has an important influence on the overall flavor of fruits. Plant ALDH genes have been implicated in divers...
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2023
gc ms
Urinary volatolomics offers a noninvasive approach for disease detection and monitoring. Herein we present an improved methodology for global volatolomic profiling. Wide coverage w...
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2023
other
<h4>Background</h4>Global warming is expected to impact the chemical communication between flowering plants and their pollinators. Surprisingly, it is unknown whether and how tempe...
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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.