Peer-Reviewed Research Database
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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
Researchers are looking for the most effective ways to extract the bioactive substances of <i>Juniperus communis</i> L. berries, which are capable of displaying the greatest range...
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2023
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Essential oils are a complex mixture of aromatic substances whose pharmacological actions, including antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer, and anti-inflammatory activities, have...
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2023
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world saw an exponential surge in the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, which eventually got discarded in the biomedical was...
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2023
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Table olives are often the result of fermentation, a process where microorganisms transform raw materials into the final product. The microbial community can significantly impact t...
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PMID: 37893676
DOI: 10.3390/foods12203783
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2023
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Thymus serpyllum L. from the Lamiaceae family is an underexplored perennial medicinal shrub with traditional usage in treating respiratory and gastrointestinal issues in the upper...
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2023
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Plant essential oils (PEOs) are being studied as a potential alternative to synthetic pesticides in agriculture. PEOs have the potential to control pests both directly, by being to...
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2023
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peer-reviewedThis study aims to explore the formation mechanism of ethyl acetate and organic acids in acid rice soup (rice-acid soup) inoculated with Kluyveromyces marxianus L1-1 t...
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2023
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Drought stress is known to diminish the growth and yield of plants by altering the physiological, biochemical and molecular processes, thus threatening food security worldwide. Nan...
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2023
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The essential oil (EO) of Artemisia plants contains a large number of bioactive compounds that are widely used. The aim of this study was to analyse the chemical composition of EOs...
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2023
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BACKGROUND
Aroma is one of the most important quality criterion of different honeys and even defines their merchant value. The composition of volatile compounds, especially the cha...
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2023
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Medicinal plants with multiple targets of action have become one of the most promising solutions in the fight against multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. <i>Tanacetum v...
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2023
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<i>Syzygium cumini</i> L. is an evergreen tree belonging to family Myrtaceae, employed for different traditional uses like diabetes, inflammation, and fever. The current study aime...
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2023
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Due to a similar plant morphology in the majority of Zingiberaceae spices, substitution and adulteration frequently take place during the sales process. Therefore, it is important...
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PMID: 37893607
DOI: 10.3390/foods12203714
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2023
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The present work aimed at characterizing the phytochemical composition of <i>Haplophyllum tuberculatum</i> essential oil (HTEO), assessing its antifungal activity against various f...
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2023
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<h4>Introduction</h4>Today, alternative strategies based on the use of bioactive compounds have been proposed to reduce mycotoxin contamination and limit the use of chemical fungic...
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2023
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
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An increase in life expectancy leads to a greater impact of chronic non-communicable diseases. This is even more remarkable in elder populations, to whom these become main determin...
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2023
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<i>Mentha x piperita</i> is a major source of secondary metabolites (SMs), and developing tools to enhance these compounds would be beneficial to meet the increasing demand in the...
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2023
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Nicotine pouches contain fewer characteristic toxicants than conventional tobacco products. However, the associated risks in terms of toxicity and addiction potential are still unc...
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2023
Pharmaceutics
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OBJECTIVE: Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD)/menthyl acetate (MA) microcapsules were developed to overcome the volatile and unstable defects of MA and improve the ease of use...
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2023
aroma analysis
The objective of this study was to evaluate the release rate, duration, and biological efficiency of yeast volatile compounds associated with olive fruit flies in slow-release disp...
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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.