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
In the present work, the chemical composition of extract fractions of the <i>Atropa belladonna</i> plant growing in the north of Iran was investigated by HPTLC, HPLC, and GC-MS. Ba...
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PMID: 38148889
DOI: 10.5812/ijpr-137839
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2023
other
<i>Pandanus amaryllifolius</i> Roxb. is a special tropical spice crop resource with broad development prospects. It is widely cultivated under a <i>Hevea brasiliensis</i> (Willd. e...
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PMID: 36832964
DOI: 10.3390/foods12040888
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2023
gc ms
<h4>Introduction</h4>Identifying mechanisms regulating mosquito attraction to hosts is key to suppressing pathogen transmission. Historically, the ecology of the host microbial com...
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2023
aroma analysis
Enshi Yulu, a renowned Chinese steamed green tea, is highly valued for its unique sensory attributes. To enhance our comprehensive understanding of the metabolic variation induced...
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2023
gc ms
<i>Nymphaea</i> is a key genus of the ANA grade (Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales) of basal flowering plants, which serve as a key model to study the early evolution...
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PMID: 38156285
DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhad237
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2023
other
Floral scent is an important and genetically complex trait in horticultural plants. Tree peony (<i>Paeonia</i> × <i>suffruticosa</i>) originates in the Pan-Himalaya and has nine wi...
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PMID: 36751271
DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac253
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2023
gc ms
Blue lotus, also known as <i>Nymphaea caerulea</i> (Nymphaeaceae), is a water lily found globally in lakes and rivers. With its long history of use in Egyptian culture, blue lotus...
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2023
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Polar microalgae contain unique compounds that enable them to adapt to extreme environments. As the skin barrier is our first line of defense against external th...
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2023
pharmacology
Food preservation is one of the strategies taken to maintain the level of public health. Oxidation activity and microbial contamination are the primary causes of food spoilage. For...
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PMID: 37372486
DOI: 10.3390/foods12122275
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2023
gc ms
<i>Polyscias fruticosa</i> leaf (PFL) has been used in food and traditional medicine for the treatment of rheumatism, ischemia, and neuralgia. However, the lipophilic components of...
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PMID: 37835296
DOI: 10.3390/foods12193643
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2023
gc ms
The presented study examines the chemical composition and antioxidant activity of the petroleum ether fraction of <i>Rosmarinus officinalis</i> (PEF-RO), which was obtained via 75...
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2023
gc ms
Different parts of <i>Ficus religiosa</i> are the common components of various traditional formulations for the treatment of several blood disorders. The new-fangled stem buds' pow...
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2023
gc ms
<i>Argemone ochroleuca</i> Sweet (Papaveraceae) is used in folk medicine as a sedative and hypnotic agent. This study aimed to evaluate the anxiolytic-like, sedative, antidepressan...
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PMID: 37631090
DOI: 10.3390/ph16081175
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2023
gc ms
Fungal volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are responsible for fungal odor and play a key role in biological processes and ecological interactions. VOCs represent a promising area of...
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2023
aeda
In this study, the microbial diversity in Tibetan flavor <i>Daqu</i> was analyzed based on single molecule real-time sequencing (SMRT). The volatile flavor compounds in <i>Daqu</i>...
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PMID: 36673416
DOI: 10.3390/foods12020324
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2023
gc ms
To address the potential risks to food safety, headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) and headspace gas chromatogra...
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PMID: 37509874
DOI: 10.3390/foods12142782
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2023
aroma analysis
Hydrolyzed vegetable proteins (HVPs) are widely used food flavorings. This study investigated the volatiles formed in thermally reacted model systems containing HVPs (made from def...
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2023
other
<h4>Ethnopharmacological relevance</h4><i>Pinellia ternata</i> (Thunb.) Breit. is a well-known perennial herb that is used in traditional medicine in China, Japan and Korea. It's d...
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2023
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Verticillium wilt, caused by the fungus Verticillium dahliae, leads to significant losses in cotton yield worldwide. Biocontrol management is a promising means o...
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2023
aroma analysis
Probiotics have gained tremendous attention as an alternative to antibiotics, while synbiotics may exhibit a greater growth promoting effect than their counterpart probiotics due t...
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PMID: 37174396
DOI: 10.3390/foods12091858
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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.