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
aroma analysis
E-nose and e-tongue are advanced technologies that allow for the fast and precise analysis of smells and flavours using special sensors. Both technologies are widely used, especial...
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PMID: 37430738
DOI: 10.3390/s23104824
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2023
gc ms
Loquat fruits are among the most popular Chinese fruits because of their unique taste and aroma. The quality profiles of these fruits during 18 days of shelf-life at 20 °C were elu...
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2023
aroma analysis
To evaluate the flavor characteristics of Chinese bayberry alcoholic beverages, fermented bayberry wine (FBW) and integrated bayberry wine (IBW) were investigated for their volatil...
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PMID: 37048367
DOI: 10.3390/foods12071546
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2023
aroma analysis
This study analyzed the effect of ultrasound treatment (up to 9 min, 20 kHz, 130 W) on the volatile compounds, total polyphenols, total flavonoids, and isoflavones (daidzein, genis...
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2023
gc ms
A Method for volatile components analysis of salt-baked chicken was established by using the headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-...
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2023
gc ms
The effects of roasting times (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min) on the dynamic changes of the water distribution and key aroma compounds in roasted chicken during the electric ro...
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2023
aeda
The aroma profile of the four most popular types of red-cooked chickens in China was analyzed using a combination of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), gas chromatograph...
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2023
Food chemistry
other
Organic macromolecules form carcinogenic and toxic substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) under high temperature baking. Thus, this study investigated the effec...
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2023
Journal of food science
other
"Chicken tawook" is a marinated boneless chicken entrée consumed in the Middle East. The aim of this study was to determine whether bioactive essential oil (EO) components carvacro...
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2023
gc ms
This study investigated the effects of rice preparation using different degrees of milling (DOM) from 0% to 13% on the nutritional composition, functional properties, major volatil...
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2023
Phytochemistry
gc ms
Salvia hispanica L., commonly named Chia, is a food plant from Central America and Australia, producing seeds whose consumption has been increasing in the last decade. Several arti...
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2023
other
Basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i> L.) is a popular specialty crop known for its use as a culinary herb and medicinal plant around the world. However, its profitability and availabilit...
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2023
other
Alkenylbenzenes are naturally occurring secondary plant metabolites. While some of them are proven genotoxic carcinogens, other derivatives need further evaluation to clarify their...
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2023
aroma analysis
Tomatoes (<i>Lycopersicon esculentum</i>) are the most valuable vegetable crop in the world. This study identified the morphological characteristics, vitamin content, etc., from 15...
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2023
Food science and technology international = Ciencia y tecnologia de los alimentos internacional
gc ms
In this work photocatalytic ethylene degradation (TiO2-UV) was applied in green cherry tomatoes with the aim to control biochemical and physiological changes during ripening. Photo...
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2023
Editora UFLA
gc ms
The goal is to improve the flavors of Arabica coffee by combining semi-carbonic maceration (SCM) process, with enzymatic process at various lengths and temperature. Five different...
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2023
Foods
aroma analysis
Quantitative relations between the sensory overall quality (OQJ) of commercial single grape variety Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir wines, defined using specific sensory attributes, and...
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2023
other
The integrated valorization of food chain waste is one of the most promising alternatives in the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. Thus, an efficient solid-phase matrix dispe...
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2023
gc ms
Soursop possesses the largest fruit size of the <i>Annona</i> genus. However, this species is threatened by the Annonaceae fruit weevil (<i>Optatus palmaris</i>), which can cause t...
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2023
International journal of molecular sciences
pharmacology
Spain is the world's leading producer of cherimoya, a climacteric fruit highly appreciated by consumers. However, this fruit species is very sensitive to chilling injury (CI), whic...
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PMID: 36835199
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24043787
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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.