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
aroma analysis
Safe and health-beneficial citrus oils can be employed as natural preservatives, flavorings, antioxidants, and as antibacterial and antifungal agents in a wide variety of food prod...
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PMID: 36613419
DOI: 10.3390/foods12010203
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2023
other
The volatiles and antioxidant capacity of essential oils (EOs) extracted from freshly immature and mature leaves of <i>Blumea balsamifera</i> at various hydrodistillation times wer...
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PMID: 36926419
DOI: 10.1155/2023/5152506
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2023
other
Fermentation technology was used to prepare the acaí (<i>Euterpe oleracea</i>) fermentation liquid. The optimal fermentation parameters included a strain ratio of <i>Lactobacillus...
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PMID: 37324839
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3274
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2023
gc ms
Firefly flashes are well-known visual signals used by these insects to find, identify, and choose mates. However, many firefly species have lost the ability to produce light as adu...
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2023
other
<h4>Background</h4>Nurses caring for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experience higher psychosocial distress than other healthcare workers, and this can adversely...
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2023
Frontiers in microbiology
other
Tryptophan derivatives are various aromatic compounds produced in the tryptophan metabolic pathway, such as 5-hydroxytryptophan, 5-hydroxytryptamine, melatonin, 7-chloro-tryptophan...
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2023
Journal of hazardous materials
other
Microbial transformations, especially the reduction and methylation of Se oxyanion, have gained significance in recent years as effective detoxification methods. Ganoderma lucidum...
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2023
Microbial cell factories
other
Methionine is an essential amino acid in mammals and a precursor for vital metabolites required for the survival of all organisms. Consequently, its inclusion is required in divers...
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2023
Food chemistry
other
Pulses have been consumed worldwide for over 10 centuries and are currently among the most widely used foods. They are not economically important, but also nutritionally beneficial...
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2023
sensory panel
Deepwater pink shrimp (<i>Parapenaus longirostris</i>) has a significantly high catch yield and is a highly important food source for human nutrition in terms of its nutritional va...
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2023
gc ms
The microbial compositions and metabolites of fermented sauerkraut with and without the addition of microorganisms have been compared. The OTU clustering, nonvolatile compounds, vo...
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PMID: 36981091
DOI: 10.3390/foods12061164
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2023
Journal of microbiology and biotechnology
other
Taste is classified into five types, each of which has evolved to play its respective role in mammalian survival. Sour taste is one of the important ways to judge whether food has...
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2023
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
The off-odors associated with spoilage of acidic beverages are linked to the germination and growth of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (AAT) spores. As a consequence, we determine...
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2023
gc ms
Metabolic product accumulation exhibited variations among mulberry (<i>Morus alba</i> L.) leaves (MLs) at distinct growth stages, and this assessment was conducted using a combinat...
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2023
Microorganisms
gc ms
Antibiotic resistance is an alarming threat all over the world, and the biofilm formation efficacy of bacteria is making the situation worse. The antagonistic efficacy of Klebsiell...
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2023
other
We report on the existence of two phosphatidic acid biosynthetic pathways in mycobacteria, a classical one wherein the acylation of the sn-1 position of glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P)...
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2023
gc ms
<i>Hypsizygus marmoreus</i> is an edible medicinal mushroom species with a high dietary value. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the nutritional value, umami taste, an...
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2023
gc ms
In this study, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS), electronic nose (E-nose), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and electronic tongue (E-tongue)...
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PMID: 36832923
DOI: 10.3390/foods12040848
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2023
other
Salt and carbohydrates, two causes of elevated blood glucose, are essential components for survival; however, excessive intake of either is a known health risk. In a previous study...
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PMID: 36678153
DOI: 10.3390/nu15020283
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2023
Trends in Food Science & Technology
other
Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the following institutions: FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the unit funding UIDB/50006/2020 and project An...
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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.