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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
aeda
Sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides L., SB), as a
multi-functional plant, is widely grown in Asia, Europe and Canada. The
berries and leaves of SB contain a diverse array of he...
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2022
Journal of Central European Agriculture
other
Representatives of the Prunus genera, found in almost every country and continent, have been recognized not only for their delicious fruits and nuts, but also because of their bene...
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2022
Biochemistry and biophysics reports
pharmacology
Flavonoids and isoflavonoids in foods are attracting attention as they are significant antioxidant and phytoestrogenic compounds that are beneficial for human health. In this study...
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2022
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B
other
Phenolic compounds include a broad variety of antioxidant plant substances such as flavonoids that have in common an aromatic ring with one or more hydroxyl groups. Nutraceuticals...
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2022
gc ms
The aim of this work was to study the influence of early basal leaf removal on Aglianico wines produced in the Apulia region (Italy). Three treatments were carried out, where 100%...
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2022
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
pharmacology
Lonicera japonica Flos (LJF) is taken orally as a health food and medicinal plant in China for a long time. The gastrointestinal metabolism of LJF was investigated in vitro by thre...
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2022
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
other
Corni Fructus (CF), used for thousands of years in Asia as food and medicine, has different therapeutic effects before and after processing. In the past work, the quality assessmen...
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2022
other
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of a tincture from the roots of <i>Angelica sinensis</i>...
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2022
Journal of oleo science
gc ms
Umbelliferae plants, which are widely used as traditional Chinese medicine because of their characteristics of relieving rheumatism, alleviating fever, circulating blood and easing...
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2022
'Elsevier BV'
other
Apiaceae plants are multipurpose folk remedies and bioactive foods that show a remarkable ability to biosynthesize a large number of secondary metabolites with antitumor and chemop...
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2022
other
This study evaluated high pressure processing (HPP) for achieving greater than 5-log reduction of <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7 in shiikuwasha (<i>Citrus depressa</i> Hayata) jui...
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2022
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
l-Aspartate is an important chemical in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Herein, a dual-enzyme system was constructed to synthesize l-aspartate from maleic anhydride at 50 °...
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2022
Environmental science & technology
other
In the western United States, the number and severity of large wildfires have been growing for decades. Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)...
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2022
International journal of biological macromolecules
other
Agar is modified by chemical methods to improve its functional properties and meet the increasing demand of the market. Some of the functional properties of agar are improved after...
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2022
gc ms
The antagonistic side effects of chemical medications led to the search for safe strategies such as biogenic agents. Correspondingly, this study aims to create biogenic, appropriat...
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2022
pharmacology
Novel organic selenides were developed in good yields (up to 91%), and their chemical entities were confirmed by IR, MS, and <sup>1</sup>H- and <sup>13</sup>C-NMR spectroscopy. The...
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2022
pharmacology
Novel methyl anthranilate-based organodiselenide hybrids were synthesized, and their chemical structures were confirmed by state-of-the-art spectroscopic techniques. Their antimicr...
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PMID: 36551195
DOI: 10.3390/biom12121765
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2022
aroma analysis
Jujube has anticancer, diabetic, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and immune system effects. In this study, jujube juice, jujube wine and jujube v...
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2022
other
Fluorescent biopolymer derivatives are increasingly used in biology and medicine, but their resistance to heat and UV radiation, which are sterilizing agents, is relatively unknown...
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PMID: 35629691
DOI: 10.3390/ma15103667
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2022
aroma analysis
Colored highland barley (CHB) is featured with its potential health-promoting benefits. CHB is frequently processed through roasting, which changes its volatile smells, color, and...
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PMID: 36141048
DOI: 10.3390/foods11182921
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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.