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
Plant, cell & environment
other
Plants can detect herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) from their damaged neighbours and respond by enhancing or priming their defenses against future herbivore attack. Plant...
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2023
Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
gc ms
Plants have evolved diverse secondary metabolites to counteract biotic stress. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released upon herbivore attack or pathogen infection. Recent st...
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2023
Journal of proteomics
other
Drought is an important abiotic stress that constrains the quality and quantity of tea plants. The green leaf volatiles Z-3-hexenyl acetate (Z-3-HAC) have been reported to play an...
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2023
gc ms
Jasmonic acid (JA) and methyl jasmonate (MeJA), the crucial plant hormones, can induce the emission of plant volatiles and regulate the behavioral responses of insect pests or thei...
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2023
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
A protocol was optimized to determine the volatile profile from monovarietal virgin olive oil (VOO) by multiple headspace solid-phase microextraction (MHS-SPME) followed by gas chr...
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2023
gc ms
Infection by fungal pathogens is the main factor leading to postharvest rot and quality deterioration of fruit and vegetables. Rotting caused by Alternaria alternata is a concernin...
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2023
aroma analysis
Nitrogen is a critical nutrient in beverage fermentations, influencing fermentation performance and formation of compounds that affect organoleptic properties of the product. Tradi...
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PMID: 36370452
DOI: 10.1093/jimb/kuac025
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2023
other
Vinegar is one of the most widely used acidic condiments. Recently, rapid advances have been made in the area of vinegar research. Different types of traditional vinegar are availa...
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2023
other
A series of new Morita-Baylis-Hillman acetates were prepared and reacted with methanesulfonamide (K<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub>, DMF, 23 °C) to produce tertiary dihydroquinoline sulf...
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2023
aeda
Fresh melons not meeting cosmetic standards were revaluated into sparkling melon-based wine. Firstly, still melon wine was elaborated and bottled into 750 mL bottles, closed with a...
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PMID: 36766020
DOI: 10.3390/foods12030491
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2023
aroma analysis
The study was proposed to investigate the effects of pulsed pressure curing on the beef absorption of the curing solution, cooking loss, moisture content, centrifugal loss, salt co...
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PMID: 36766184
DOI: 10.3390/foods12030656
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2023
aroma analysis
In this study, beef was marinated with different low-sodium salt substitutes and heated and aged by employing superheated steam roasting and traditional roasting to investigate the...
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2023
other
In nature, minerals record various origins and information for geology and geobiochemistry. Here, we investigated the origin of organic matter and growth mechanism of quartz with o...
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2023
gc ms
Major health issues, such as the rise in oxidative stress, incidences of Alzheimer's disease, and infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes, have prompted researchers to l...
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2023
other
Mosquitoes are one of the most lethal animals in the world and transmit many dangerous human pathogens, causing millions of deaths each year. The search for modern and better mosqu...
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2023
pharmacology
Mexico is one of the largest guava producers in the world, so it has access to a huge amount of waste and byproducts obtained after the industrial processing of the fruit. This rev...
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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 R709 (SF-008), for which a renewa...
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2023
gc ms
Numerous natural habitats, such as soil, air, fermented foods, and human stomachs, are home to different <i>Bacillus</i> strains. Some <i>Bacillus</i> strains have a distinctive pr...
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2023
gc ms
<i>Bangia fusco-purpurea</i> is an economically important seaweed with Fujian characteristics. Given that its harvest is seasonal, drying is often used to remove moisture, extend s...
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2023
pharmacology
Secondary metabolites in ginger include 6-gingerol, 6-shogaol, 10-gingerol, gingerdiones, gingerdiols, paradols, 6-dehydrogingerols, 5-acetoxy-6- gingerol, 3,5-diacetoxy-6-gingerdi...
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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.