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.
2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Naringin is the major polyphenol in bitter orange peel with antioxidant property. However, its pH sensitivity, low solubility, and bitter taste limit its application in food. In th...
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PMID: 35885390
DOI: 10.3390/foods11142147
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2022
aeda
Dianhong tea (DHT) is popular for its pleasant caramel-like aroma. In this study, the aroma profile of high-grade DHT have been studied using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (...
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2022
Mikrochimica acta
other
Methyl nicotinate (MN) is a representative and typical volatile organic marker of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the specific detection of MN in human breath facilitates non-invas...
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2022
Veterinary medicine international
other
Fresh cassava roots that contain hydrocyanic acid (HCN) can be hazardous to animals when consumed. Prior literature has shown that adding sulfur may eliminate HCN without harming t...
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PMID: 36226030
DOI: 10.1155/2022/9752400
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2022
Food chemistry
other
The Ginkgo biloba has astonished scholars globally with enormous bioactives, with sales exceeding $10 billion since 2017. The Ginkgo biloba seed (GBS) is an essential part of culin...
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2022
ACS omega
gc ms
Quantitative data provide clues for biochemical reactions or regulations. The absolute quantification of volatile compounds in tea is complicated by their low abundance, volatility...
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2022
Frontiers in nutrition
aeda
Chlorogenic acid (CGA), also known as coffee tannic acid and 3-caffeoylquinic acid, is a water-soluble polyphenolic phenylacrylate compound produced by plants through the shikimic...
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2022
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
other
The aim of this paper is to review whether products containing menthol exacerbate allergic rhinitis. A literature survey was performed on PubMed, Google and Google Scholar concerni...
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2022
International Journal of Food Microbiology
aroma analysis
Pálinka is Hungarian traditional alcoholic drink, and its quality is strongly depending on applied yeast strain. Unfortunately, all commercial yeast strains used the production of...
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2022
Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica
gc ms
Lonicerae Japonicae Flos and Lonicerae Flos, as traditional Chinese medicinal and edible food, are widely used in medicine, food, health products, and other industries. However, th...
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The aim of the present study was to investigate the changes in the content of phytochemical compounds and in vitro antioxidant, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory activities of T...
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2022
Metabolites
other
Blueberries, which are recognized by their colored fruits and exquisite flavor and taste, are a great source of bioactive substances with potential functional properties. For the p...
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2022
Biomedical chromatography : BMC
aeda
Aesculetin, a coumarin compound present in the sancho tree and chicory, exhibits excellent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities in the vascular and immune system. In this s...
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2022
Food chemistry: X
other
Whereas water-ethanol hybrid gels present an opportunity to realize aroma enhancement, translating hypothesis into practice is limited by poorly defined viscoelastic characteristic...
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2022
Food chemistry
other
In this work, magnetic chitosan (MCH) beads were synthesized by phase-inversion method, and grafted with polydopamine (PDA) and then used for direct immobilization of Candida rugos...
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2022
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
aeda
The purpose of this study was to determine the key odor-active compounds contributing to the off-flavor of aged pasteurized yogurt (APY) using sensory-directed flavor analysis. Add...
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2022
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
other
Oxide chemiresistors have mostly been used to detect reactive gases such as ethanol, acetone, formaldehyde, nitric dioxide, and carbon monoxide. However, the selective and sensitiv...
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2022
Environment international
gc ms
Human exposure to carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as benzene, from hand sanitizers is a topic of current concern. In light of the heavy use of hand sanitizers...
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2022
Annals of work exposures and health
threshold study
The odor detection threshold for a chemical typically varies widely across population members, and the values can be described by a lognormal distribution. Assuming that the parame...
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2022
Frontiers in endocrinology
other
Post-traumatic stress disorder impedes pubertal development and disrupts pulsatile LH secretion in humans and rodents. The posterodorsal sub-nucleus of the medial amygdala (MePD) i...
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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.