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
<h4>Introduction</h4><i>Alternaria solani</i> is a challenging pathogen in the tomato crop globally. Chemical control is a rapid approach, but emerging fungicide resistance has bec...
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2023
gc ms
This study assessed the impact of milk on the bioactive compounds, physicochemical properties, antioxidant activity, ROS inhibition, and volatile flavor compounds of fermented blac...
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2023
sensory panel
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of herbal supplements administered to goats on sensory quality and volatile flavor compounds in their milk. The experiment was c...
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PMID: 37569232
DOI: 10.3390/foods12152963
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2023
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Screening of herbal plants for various therapeutic properties is the hour as it shows promising activity. Scientific evidence of the pharmacological activity of...
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2023
pharmacology
Traditional rice is gaining popularity worldwide due to its high nutritional and pharmaceutical value, as well as its high resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. This has attra...
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2023
gc ms
Aroma is a crucial attribute affecting the quality of pepper and its processed products, which has significant commercial value. However, little is known about the composition of v...
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PMID: 37175606
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24097901
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2023
gc ms
Oleic acid oxidation is one of the main sources of food flavor compounds. Volatile profiling was investigated using thermal desorption cryo-trapping combined with gas chromatograph...
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2023
other
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been widely used as light sources for plant production in plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs), and light spectrum and light amount ha...
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2023
sensory panel
Organic agriculture is of great socioeconomic significance because it can promote the nutritional quality of horticultural crops and is environmentally friendly. However, owing to...
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PMID: 37569183
DOI: 10.3390/foods12152914
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2023
aroma analysis
: The dynamic changes of key volatile compounds and water distribution in the pig skin jelly with different NaCl addition (0.0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%, and 4.0%) were identified and ana...
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2023
aroma analysis
Oysters are nutritious and tasty but difficult to store. Drying can extend the storage period of oysters and give them a unique flavor. In this study, the effects of four drying pr...
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PMID: 37297379
DOI: 10.3390/foods12112136
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2023
gc ms
ABSTRACT Serapias vomeracea is an economically valuable plant belonging to the Orchidaceae family; particularly, its tubers are consumed as hot drinks. Past studies on S. vomeracea...
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2023
gc ms
Food safety issues are becoming increasingly important as a result of contamination with foodborne pathogenic bacteria. Plant essential oil is a safe and non-toxic natural antibact...
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PMID: 37238853
DOI: 10.3390/foods12102035
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2023
other
Green leaf volatiles (GLVs) are short-chain oxylipins that are emitted from plants in response to stress. Previous studies have shown that oral secretions (OS) of the tobacco hornw...
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2023
sensory panel
Roasting plays important roles in shaping the volatile profile of oolong tea. In this study, the sensory attributes and volatile compositions of 153 roasted or unroasted oolong tea...
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2023
aeda
Fermentation is the key technology for black tea aroma formation. The key aroma substances of black tea at different fermentation stages (unfermented (WDY), underfermented (F1H), f...
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2023
gc ms
Changes in flavor volatiles of three colored wheat grains (black, green, and yellow) after cooking were detected via gas chromatography-ion migration spectrometry (GC-IMS) to explo...
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2023
other
In order to investigate the relationship between the occurrence of the "grubby" sensory defect caused by olive fruit fly (<i>Bactrocera oleae</i> (Rossi)) infestation and the resul...
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PMID: 38137278
DOI: 10.3390/foods12244473
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2023
sensory panel
<i>Rosa roxburghii</i> Tratt (RRT) has become popular owing to its high vitamin C content. Volatiles are important factors that affect the quality of RRTs and their processed produ...
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2023
aeda
In this study, the effects of different sun withering degrees (75% (CK), 69% (S69), 66% (S66), 63% (S63), and 60% (S60) water content in the withered leaves) on black tea sensory q...
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PMID: 37372642
DOI: 10.3390/foods12122430
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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.