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
aeda
Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are industrially important bacteria that are widely used in the fermented food industry, especially in the manufacture of yogurt. The fermentation charac...
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2023
gc ms
Lung cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, mostly due to diagnostics in the advanced stage. Therefore, the development of a quick, simple, and non-invasive diagnostic tool...
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PMID: 37686155
DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713350
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2023
gc ms
Sweet cherries are popular among consumers, with a recent explosion in sweet cherry production in China. However, the fragility of these fruits poses a challenge for expanding prod...
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2023
other
The cocoa shell (CS) is being incorporated into different food products due to its recognized content of bioactive compounds. In the case of cocoa shell infusions (CSI), the bioact...
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PMID: 37444183
DOI: 10.3390/foods12132442
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2023
aroma analysis
Zanthoxylum motuoense Huang, native to Tibet, China, is a newly discovered Chinese prickly ash, which, recently, has increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. In order t...
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PMID: 37297467
DOI: 10.3390/foods12112225
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2023
gc ms
<i>Chorisia</i> (syn. <i>Ceiba</i>) species are important ornamental, economic, and medicinal plants that are endowed with a diversity of secondary metabolites; however, their vola...
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2023
pharmacology
The current study explored the antioxidant and antibacterial capabilities of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) synthetized using methanolic leaf extracts of the medicinal herb <i>V...
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2023
aroma analysis
The aim of this study was to compare the meat quality and taste-and-aroma-related components of beef between breeds. For this purpose, Hanwoo and Chikso steers (<i>n</i> = 7 per br...
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PMID: 36832880
DOI: 10.3390/foods12040805
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2023
gc ms
Edible insects have recently attracted attention as an alternative sustainable protein food source. However, consumer aversion remains the major obstacle to successful implementati...
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PMID: 37372539
DOI: 10.3390/foods12122328
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2023
aroma analysis
The volatile compounds of virgin olive oil (VOO) have an important role from a sensory point of view as they are responsible for the aroma of the oil. Once the oil is obtained, aut...
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2023
gc ms
The aroma of coffee is a complex mixture of more than 1000 compounds. The volatile compounds in green and roasted coffee were analyzed to detect several features related to quality...
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PMID: 36766018
DOI: 10.3390/foods12030489
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2023
gc ms
<h4>Importance</h4>Breath analysis has been explored as a noninvasive means to detect COVID-19. However, the impact of emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, such as Omicron, on the exha...
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2023
gc ms
In order to explore the characteristic aroma flavor and its formation mechanism of old ducks, two ages (30 days and 60 days) of young ducks and three ages of old ducks (300 days, 9...
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2023
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
In this study, endophytic and rhizospheric bacteria were isolated from Moringa olifera and M. perigreina from Oman, and their in vitro antagonistic activity against Pythium aphanid...
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2023
other
Whisky lactone is a naturally occurring fragrance compound in oak wood and is widely used as a sensory additive in food products. However, safe and efficient methods for the produc...
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2023
gc ms
The scope of the current study was to monitor if semi-quantitative data of volatile compounds (volatilome) of citrus honey (ch) produced in different countries could potentially le...
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PMID: 36766038
DOI: 10.3390/foods12030509
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2023
gc ms
The River Itchen and River Test, two chalk streams in Southern England, are sites of special scientific interest. These ecosystems face a number of environmental pressures from ant...
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2023
gc ms
In the literature there is a lack of consensus regarding mushroom volatiles; most of the studies identify only a few volatiles. This study deals with button mushrooms, their emitte...
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2023
gc ms
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of environmental contaminants released into the environment from both natural and anthropogenic sources that are associated with...
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2023
other
Co-oxidation of a range of alkenes, dienes, and aromatic compounds by whole cells of the isoprene-degrading bacterium Rhodococcus sp. AD45 expressing isoprene monooxygenase was inv...
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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.