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
pharmacology
Podophyllum hexandrum Royle is an alpine medicinal plant of considerable importance, and its seed dormancy severely inhibits population renewal. Although cold stratification can br...
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2023
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
The identification of geographical origins of soybean pastes using headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was attempted in this study. Since soybean paste was odor-rich, 36...
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2023
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The genus Beauveria includes important entomopathogenic and endophytic fungi; among them, Beauveria bassiana is the most studied species. However, there is little knowledge regardi...
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2023
aroma analysis
In this study, fresh lotus leaves at two maturity stages were processed to tea products by different methods (white-tea process, green-tea process and black-tea process). The volat...
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PMID: 36613414
DOI: 10.3390/foods12010198
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2023
Journal of food science and technology
pharmacology
Fresh food products are highly prone to oxidation and microbial attack, rendering them unsuitable for consumption. Thus, active food packaging was developed to protect and prolong...
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2023
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Natural compounds are a suitable alternative to synthetic food preservatives due to their natural origin and health-promoting properties. In the current study, phenolic-phenolic an...
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PMID: 36981264
DOI: 10.3390/foods12061338
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2023
other
In plants, hydroxycinnamic and hydroxybenzoic acids occur mainly as esters. This study aimed to determine the contribution of individual phenolic acid esterases in Lp. plantarum TM...
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2023
gc ms
In the present work a simple enzymatic approach (Novozym 435) for transesterification to synthesize pyrrole esters was reported. To generate the best reaction conditions, which res...
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2023
gc ms
Traditional <i>Huangjiu</i> produced around Winter Solstice has higher quality and a more harmonious aroma. To investigate the variations of volatile metabolites and microbial comm...
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2023
pharmacology
<h4>Background</h4>Herbal medicines have been extensively used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Garlic, known to exert antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects, can be...
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2023
Journal of food protection
other
Sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate are relatively common preservatives used in a wide range of foods including flavoring products like sauces. The potential health risks arising...
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2023
aroma analysis
Scents are volatile compounds highly employed in a wide range of manufactured items, such as fine perfumery, household products, and functional foods. One of the main directions of...
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PMID: 36902122
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054685
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2023
gc ms
Gas chromatography (GC) yields superior separations of low boiling point volatile compounds. Therefore, preparative gas chromatography (Prep GC) was established by combining analyt...
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2023
Journal of breath research
gc ms
The Peppermint Experiment is a breath analysis benchmarking initiative that seeks to address the lack of inter-comparability of outcomes across independent breath biomarker studies...
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2023
other
The aim of the present study was to obtain antimicrobial dressings from bacterial cellulose loaded with nutmeg and of fir needle essential oils. The attractive properties of BC, su...
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PMID: 37688255
DOI: 10.3390/polym15173629
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2023
EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority
other
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of an essential oil from the seeds of Myristica fragrans...
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2023
sensory panel
There is a huge demand for brewing water in tea consumption, and the sensory flavor of tea infusion is significantly affected by the water used for brewing. To investigate the impa...
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2023
gc ms
In this study, for the first time, the antioxidant and antidiabetic properties of the essential oil from cinnamon (<i>Cinnamomum zeylanicum</i>) leaves were evaluated and investiga...
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PMID: 36676085
DOI: 10.3390/life13010136
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2023
International journal of biological macromolecules
other
Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a bio-based biodegradable biopolymer with excellent potential to substitute petrochemical-based food packaging materials. Nevertheless, low elonga...
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2023
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
other
BACKGROUND: Citrus residuals are rich in nutrients like pectin, essential oil, and amino acids, which are wasted in the food industry. Moreover, citrus components often coexist wit...
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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.