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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aeda
Cider flavor has a very important impact on the quality. Solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS) combined with gas chromatography-ion mobility...
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PMID: 37835218
DOI: 10.3390/foods12193565
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2023
Journal of neuroscience methods
other
BACKGROUND: Flavor is a mental representation that results from the brain's integration of at least odor and taste, and fMRI can highlight brain-related areas. However, delivering...
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2023
Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Giant Stropharia (S. rugoso-annulata) is an edible mushroom recommended for consumption by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It possesses significant cul...
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PMID: 37623563
DOI: 10.3390/jof9080792
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2023
Microorganisms
other
Drinking wine is a processed beverage that offers high nutritional and health benefits. It is produced from grape must, which undergoes fermentation by yeasts (and sometimes lactic...
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2023
sensory panel
Flavor sensation is one of the most prevalent characteristics of food industries and an important consumer preference regulator of dairy products. So far, many volatile compounds h...
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2023
Food chemistry
other
Heating of either 3,5-heptadien-2-one or 2,6-heptanedione in the presence of ammonia produced 2,6-dimethylpyridine, and also 3-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-one for the second ketone. When...
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2023
Nutrients
other
Together with its comorbidities, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is likely to rise further with the obesity epidemic. However, the literature's evidence shows how its prog...
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PMID: 37299420
DOI: 10.3390/nu15112457
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2023
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
A positive correlation of α-farnesene and its oxidation metabolites with superficial scald is commonly reported in apples stored in air or controlled atmosphere (CA) systems, where...
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2023
other
<h4>Background</h4>Using nanoparticles containing L. citriodora EO and citral has shown potential in treating skin disorders such as melanoma.<h4>Methods</h4>In this study, GC‒MS w...
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2023
gc ms
This study provides valuable data on the specific toxic products that could be released from the commercially used, flexible polyurethane foams (FPUFs) during a fire. The steady-st...
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PMID: 36984324
DOI: 10.3390/ma16062444
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2023
gc ms
In this work, the detection characteristics of a large group of common pesticides were investigated using a multi-scheme chemical ionization inlet (MION) with a thermal desorption...
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2023
other
Over the past decades, Colombia has suffered complex social problems related to illicit crops, including forced displacement, violence, and environmental damage, among other conseq...
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2023
gc ms
The use of e-cigarettes (ECs) has become increasingly popular worldwide, even though scientific results have not established their safety. Diacetyl (DA) and acetylpropionyl (AP), w...
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2023
Microorganisms
sensory panel
Non-Saccharomyces yeasts represent a very appealing alternative to producing beers with zero or low ethanol content. The current study explores the potential of seven non-Saccharom...
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2023
other
Turmeric, <i>Curcuma longa</i> L., is a type of medicinal plant characterized by its perennial nature and rhizomatous growth. It is a member of the Zingiberaceae family and is dist...
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2023
sensory panel
Precursors to flavor are important to its development, yet little is known about the intrinsic products of metabolism that influence flavor. Our objective was to use untargeted met...
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2023
other
Abstract The effect of frozen storage (−18°C for 2 months) and thawing (4°C for 16 h) on the taste-related compounds and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in chicken breast meat wa...
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2023
Journal of applied microbiology
other
AIMS: Volatile thiols are very potent aroma molecules that contribute to the aroma of many beverages. The characteristic thiols of certain wine varieties such as Sauvignon blanc ar...
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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 SmoKEz C-10 (SF-005), for which a renewal applic...
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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 Zesti Smoke Code 10 (SF-002), for which a renewa...
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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.