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
Solvents play an important role in the extraction process by considerably affecting the amount and nature of secondary metabolites of medicinal plants. Thus, the effect of solvents...
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PMID: 36431020
DOI: 10.3390/life12111885
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2022
ACS catalysis
other
Terpenes are the largest class of natural products and are attractive targets in the fuel, fragrance, pharmaceutical, and flavor industries. Harvesting terpenes from natural source...
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2022
other
Mycoses or fungal infections are a general health problem that often occurs in healthy and immunocompromised people in the community. The development of resistant strains in <i>Fun...
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2022
aroma analysis
Respiratory mycosis is a major health concern, due to the expanding population of immunosuppressed and immunocompromised patients and the increasing resistance to conventional anti...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Euwallacea perbrevis</i> is an ambrosia beetle that vectors fungal pathogens causing <i>Fusarium</i> dieback in Florida avocado trees. Current monitoring lures contain quercivor...
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PMID: 35053245
DOI: 10.3390/biom12010097
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2022
Frontiers in Plant Science
other
To identify key traits brought about by citrus domestication, we have analyzed the transcriptomes of the pulp of developing fruitlets of inedible wild Ichang papeda (Citrus ichange...
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2022
other
Olfactory receptors (ORs) are the largest protein superfamily in mammals. Certain ORs are ectopically expressed in extranasal tissues and regulate cell type-specific signal transdu...
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2022
gc ms
As a source of aromatic plants, the genus Artemisia has long been considered to have the potential to develop plant pesticides. In this study, components of essential oils from A....
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2022
other
In this study, the essential oils (EOs) obtained from three endemic <i>Prangos</i> species from Turkey (<i>P. heyniae</i>, <i>P. meliocarpoides</i> var. <i>meliocarpoides</i>, and...
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2022
other
Peperomia pellucida L. Kunth is a herb well-known for its secondary metabolites (SM) with biological potential. In this study, the variations in the SM of P. pellucida during assoc...
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2022
gc ms
Ginseng volatile oil (GVO) is one of the main components of ginseng and has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. In this study, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Eugenia patrisii</i> Vahl is a native and non-endemic myrtaceous species of the Brazilian Amazon. Due to few botanical and phytochemical reports of this species, the objective o...
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2022
Environmental science & technology
other
The formation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from the structurally similar monoterpenes, α-pinene and Δ3-carene, differs substantially. The aerosol phase is already complex for...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
other
Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), as open-field crops, play an important role in multifunctional and sustainable agriculture as a result of their low energy requirements for cu...
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2022
gc ms
The essential oil (EO) of Calycolpus goetheanus (Myrtaceae) specimens (A, B, and C) were obtained through hydrodistillation. The analysis of the chemical composition of the EOs was...
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2022
other
The clinical application of gentamicin may lead to acute kidney injury (AKI), and the nephrotoxicity of gentamicin is related to the pathological mechanism of several oxidative and...
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2022
gc ms
Chemical components are one of the most significant traits and attributes of plant tissues, and lead to their different functions. In this study, the composition of <i>Amomun tsao-...
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PMID: 35626972
DOI: 10.3390/foods11101402
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2022
gc ms
Bathycoelia distincta (Pentatomidae) is the dominant pest in South African macadamia orchards, where adults are responsible for causing severe yield losses. Similar to other hemipt...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Pinus</i> species are important in traditional medicine throughout their ranges, and pine essential oils are of interest in aromatherapy and as topical treatments. In this work,...
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2022
other
<i>Tricholoma vaccinum</i> is an ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete with high host specificity. The slow-growing fungus is able to produce twenty sesquiterpenes, including α-barbatene,...
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PMID: 35736037
DOI: 10.3390/jof8060555
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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.