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
The root tuber and rhizome of <i>Curcuma longa</i> L., abbreviated, respectively, as RCL and RHCL, are used as different medicines in China. In this work, volatile oils were extrac...
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2022
other
Here, we report a novel comparative assessment of preparation and characterization of thyme oil nanoemulsion and its chitosan encapsulation using high energy approach for the manag...
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2022
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Somatic mutations in Vitis spp. are relatively frequent and can generate new agronomically interesting phenotypes. We report the discovery, genetic and chemical charact...
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2022
sensory panel
Baking is widely accepted for aroma enhancement of black tea, and studies have mainly focused on the aroma or chemical substances under a specified baking condition. Understanding...
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2022
Environmental science & technology
aroma analysis
Interfacial solar steam generation for clean water production suffers from volatile organic compound (VOC) contamination during solar-to-steam conversion. Here, we present a solar...
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2022
Environmental research
gc ms
In this study, semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in samples of indoor dust and organic thin films obtained from 100 residential houses in South Korea, were examined, based on...
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2022
The Science of the total environment
other
Brominated phenols (BPs) of anthropogenic origin are aromatic substances widely used in the industry as flame retardants (FRs) and pesticides as well as the components of FRs and p...
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2022
sensory panel
Highland barley was fermented with <i>Cordyceps militaris</i>, <i>Stropharia rugoso-annulata</i>, <i>Morchella esculenta</i>, <i>Schizophyllum commune</i> and <i>Tremella sanguinea...
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PMID: 36553692
DOI: 10.3390/foods11243949
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2022
other
Trichloroanisole (TCA) in wine results in a sensory defect called "cork taint", a significant problem for the wine industry. Wines can become contaminated by TCA absorption from th...
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2022
Frontiers in public health
other
BACKGROUND: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a large group of chemicals widely used in people's daily routines. Increasing evidence revealed the VOCs' accumulating toxicity. H...
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2022
Food chemistry
aroma analysis
Egg yolk contains abundant meat precursors, but its odor is quite different from meat aroma. In this study, the lipids in egg yolk were partly removed by acetone or totally removed...
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2022
other
Oxygenated fuel has the function of self-supplying oxygen during the combustion process, which can greatly improve emission performance and reduce diesel fuel soot production. In t...
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2022
Frontiers in plant science
other
General volatile anesthetic diethyl ether blocks sensation and responsive behavior not only in animals but also in plants. Here, using a combination of RNA-seq and proteomic LC-MS/...
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2022
aroma analysis
The aim of this article was to assess the influence of the harvest date on the composition of amino acids and derived aromatic compounds in grape-<i>mistelle</i> and wine of the Mo...
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PMID: 35407044
DOI: 10.3390/foods11070958
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2022
Food chemistry
other
Several epidemiological studies emphasize the consumption of processed meat products as a risk factor of colorectal cancer, linking N-nitrosamines (NAs) formed during nitrite curin...
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2022
gc ms
Urban runoff contains a range of organic micropollutants which, if not removed during wastewater treatment, pose a risk to aquatic environments. These mixtures are complex and ofte...
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2022
aroma analysis
Volatile polyfunctional thiol compounds, particularly 3-sulfanylhexan-1-ol (3SH) and 3-sulfanylhexyl acetate (3SHA), are key odorants contributing to the aroma profile of many wine...
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PMID: 35885295
DOI: 10.3390/foods11142050
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2022
other
<i>Sataw-Dong</i>, generally produced by spontaneous fermentation of mature stink beans. Monosodium glutamate effectively increases the viability of freeze-dried <i>Lactobacillus p...
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2022
gc ms
Nowadays, counterfeiting and adulteration on foods take place around the world in a variety of ways. Identification and authentication of geographical origin of agricultural produc...
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2022
other
The storage of plant samples as well as sample preparation for extraction have a significant impact on the profile of metabolites, however, these factors are often overlooked durin...
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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.