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
gc ms
Despite the large number of studies indicating that Angelica dahurica has strong antioxidant capacity, there are no clear details on the specific antioxidant components involved. I...
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2022
other
<i>Citrus</i> essential oils are routinely adulterated because of the lack of regulations or reliable authentication methods. Unfortunately, the relatively simple chemical makeup a...
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2022
other
Citrus fruits are composed of oil cells layer, white membrane layer, pulp and seeds. The cultivar <i>Citrus aurantium</i> 'Changshan-huyou' (CACH) is a hybridization of <i>Citrus g...
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2022
gc ms
Microorganisms are one of the main sources of antimicrobial agents and over 50% of antibiotics currently used in hospitals are metabolites from microbes. This study aimed to isolat...
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PMID: 35812345
DOI: 10.1155/2022/4230397
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2022
other
Owing to their various application fields and biological properties, natural products and essential oils (EO) in particular are nowadays attracting more attention as alternative me...
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PMID: 35159462
DOI: 10.3390/foods11030312
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2022
gc ms
Aqueous extracts from <i>Eucalyptus globulus</i> leaves contain a wide variety of specialized metabolites, mainly polyphenols and appreciable amounts of volatile compounds, which a...
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2022
other
<i>Daqu</i> provides functional microbiota and various nutrients for artificial pit mud (APM) cultivation. However, little is known about whether its attributes affect the microbio...
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PMID: 36141055
DOI: 10.3390/foods11182922
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2022
aroma analysis
<h4>Background</h4>Although grapes accumulate diverse groups of volatile compounds, their genetic regulation in different cultivars remains unelucidated. Therefore, this study inve...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Anethum graveolens</i> L. is a famous aromatic herb that is widely used as a spice and has been applied in folk medicine to cure many diseases. The current work was carried out...
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2022
Toxins
other
Previously, authors reported that individual volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus could act as a mechanism of biocontrol to significant...
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2022
Molecular and cellular biochemistry
aeda
Curcumin, belongs to the curcuminoid family, is a natural phenolic compound, presenting low bioavailability and pleiotropic activity. Since ancient times, curcumin has been in use...
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2022
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association
other
Endometrial cancer remains as one of the widespread female malignancies despite the existing treatment measures mainly surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. In recent times, stu...
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2022
Nutrition and cancer
other
Despite being the most common primary malignant tumor of the central nervous system, the prognosis of glioblastoma (GBM) is still remarkably poor. Paradol is a flavor phenolic cons...
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2022
aroma analysis
Ginger is among the most widespread and widely consumed traditional medicinal plants around the world. Its beneficial effects, which comprise e. g. anticancer and anti-inflammatory...
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2022
other
Plant-based compounds with antiviral properties against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been identified in <i>Aframomum melegueta</i> through comp...
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2022
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
pharmacology
Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic agent that is widely used to treat various types of cancers. However, its side effects, most commonly nausea and vomiting, limit its widespread use....
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2022
aroma analysis
Where vineyard exposure to bushfire smoke cannot be avoided or prevented, grape and wine producers need strategies to transform smoke-affected juice and wine into saleable product....
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2022
Food chemistry
pharmacology
Sargassum carpophyllum (Sargassaceae) is a brown seaweed that contains phlorotannins, which are phloroglucinol polymers with reported anti-inflammatory activities. The phlorotannin...
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2022
aroma analysis
The manufacturing of ready-to-drink black tea was through a long process, up to 14-18 hours. There was an alternative way to produce RTD black tea directly on the farm to reduce ti...
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PMID: 35282309
DOI: 10.1155/2022/1977762
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2022
Journal of food biochemistry
other
One of the major problems caused by repeated subcutaneous insulin injections in patients with diabetes is insulin amyloidosis. Understanding the molecular mechanism of amyloid fibr...
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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.