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
gc ms
Hydrodistillation is the main technique to obtain essential oils from rosemary for the aroma industry. However, this technique is wasteful, producing numerous by-products (residual...
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2023
pharmacology
The current COVID-19 pandemic, characterized by a highly contagious severe acute respiratory syndrome, led us to look for medicinal plants as an alternative to obtain new drugs, es...
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2023
Frontiers in Nutrition
aeda
Chinese indigenous chickens have a long history of natural and artificial selection and are popular for their excellent meat quality and unique flavor. This study investigated six...
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2023
gc ms
Low temperatures are an effective way of delaying grain rancidity and deterioration. However, little is known about the difference in quality changes in high-moisture japonica brow...
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PMID: 38231596
DOI: 10.3390/foods12234218
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2023
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Sch.Bip. (T. parthenium) is an aromatic perennial plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, also known as feverfew. It is widely distributed i...
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2023
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
As a natural polyphenolic compound, chlorogenic acid (CGA) has attracted increasing attention for its various biological activities, such as antioxidant, liver protection, intestin...
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2023
aroma analysis
Inoculation strategy is a significant determinant of the flavor quality of Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar. Herein, the comparative analyses of the effects of various inoculation strate...
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2023
gc ms
The current study aims to attain a higher yield of biodiesel from Bauhinia tree seed wastes through process optimization using response surface methodology (RSM) and assess its com...
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2023
gc ms
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), physicochemical and microbiological analyses, sensory descriptive evaluation, and multivariate analyses were applied to evaluate the e...
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PMID: 38201150
DOI: 10.3390/foods13010122
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2023
other
<h4>Importance</h4>As the management of wheat fungal diseases becomes increasingly challenging, the use of bacterial agents with biocontrol potential against the two major wheat ph...
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2023
gc ms
Fruit of <i>Carissa opaca</i> Stapf ex Haines (<i>C. opaca)</i> is a feed additive and is commonly used against cardiac dysfunction, fever, asthma, diarrhea, gastrointestinal ailme...
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2023
gc ms
Diabetes is a major public health concern and natural easy-going remedies are being searched. Since <i>Cinnamomum zeylanicum</i> Blume has a low coumarin concentration and possible...
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PMID: 36938283
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.35023
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2023
aroma analysis
Consumers' perception of volatiles determines their preferences and choices of food. Furthermore, various factors, such as varieties, origin, gender, and edible parts, may influenc...
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PMID: 36766436
DOI: 10.3390/ani13030541
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2023
gc ms
The genus <i>Phagnalon</i> Cass. (Asteraceae) is composed of widely distributed species and most of them, due to the medicinal properties they possess, are widely used in folk medi...
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2023
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Fujian province, an important tea-producing area in China, has abundant tea cultivars. To investigate the genetic relationships of tea plant cultivars in Fujian province and the ch...
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2023
aroma analysis
The effects of variations in the heat treatment process of milk on its quality and flavor are inevitable. This study investigated the effect of direct steam injection and instantan...
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2023
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
aroma analysis
BACKGROUND: The effects of the environment and genotype in the coffee bean chemical composition were studied using nine trials covering an altitudinal gradient [600-1100 m above se...
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2023
gc ms
The quorum sensing mechanism relies on the detection and response to chemical signals, termed autoinducers, which regulate the synthesis of virulence factors including toxins, enzy...
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2023
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry
other
Matrix-based certified reference materials (CRMs) play a central role in the analysis of food contaminants for ensuring measurement accuracy and comparability, as they exhibit the...
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2023
Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment
other
Polycyclic aromatics hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in foods and environment and possess carcinogenic and mutagenic potential. Foods are the main source of exposure to PAHs in...
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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.