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
pharmacology
Bilberry (<i>Vaccinium myrtillus</i> L.) fruits are an important part of local diets in many countries and are used as a medicinal herb to treat various disorders. Extracts from fr...
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2022
aroma analysis
Chemicals underlying the floral aroma of dry teas needs multi-dimensional investigations. Green, black, and freeze-dried tea samples were produced from five tea cultivars, and only...
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2022
sensory panel
Kalecik Karası (KK) is one of the important native grape varieties of Turkey used in red wine production. As an extension of a previous project that profiled the sensory characteri...
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2022
aroma analysis
As a vitamin C-rich fruit, choosing the eating time for kiwifruit with the best quality during the shelf period is still a problem for consumers. This paper mainly focuses on the c...
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PMID: 35885355
DOI: 10.3390/foods11142113
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2022
'IntechOpen'
aroma analysis
Strawberries of such cultivars as “Ducat”, “Honey” and “Polka” were studied to define the content of aromatic volatiles using the methods of highly efficient liquid chromatography....
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2022
aeda
<h4>Aim</h4>The aroma-producing strain of <i>Geotrichum candidum</i> GDMCC60675 was taken as the research object, the composition of aroma-producing substances of <i>G. candidum</i...
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2022
gc ms
Alveolar macrophage is the predominant cell type in the lung and is thought to be the major target for anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Ar...
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2022
gc ms
Although traditional fermented noodles possess high eating quality, it is difficult to realize large-scale industrialization due to the complexity of spontaneous fermentation. In p...
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2022
gc ms
The knowledge of the atmospheric degradation reactions affecting the stability of modern materials is still of current interest. In fact, environmental parameters, such as relative...
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PMID: 35566956
DOI: 10.3390/polym14091787
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2022
Agronomy
gc ms
Free and glycosidically-bound aromatic characterization of 21 minority red grapevine varieties was carried out, along three consecutive vintages, using solid phase microextraction...
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2022
gc ms
Sufu, a Chinese traditional fermented soybean product, has a characteristic foul smell but a pleasant taste. We determined the core functional microbiota and their metabolic mechan...
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2022
gc ms
The aim of this study was to evaluate the biosynthesis of flavor compounds from rice bran by fermentation facilitated by Kluyveromyces marxianus and Debaryomyces hansenii. The grow...
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2022
gc ms
European cherry fruit fly, <i>Rhagoletis cerasi</i> (Diptera: Tephritidae), is the most important pest of sweet and sour cherry fruit. This fly is difficult to control by insectici...
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2022
other
<i>Lonicera japonica</i> Thunb., belonging to the Caprifoliaceae family, is an important traditional Chinese medicinal plant. The <i>L. japonica</i> flower (LJF) is widely used in...
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2022
Frontiers in Microbiology
aeda
AimThe aroma-producing strain of Geotrichum candidum GDMCC60675 was taken as the research object, the composition of aroma-producing substances of G. candidum was studied, and the...
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2022
gc ms
A large number of apple varieties (35) from the same germplasm were investigated over two consecutive harvest years. A total of 39 volatile compounds were identified by HS-SPME-GC-...
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PMID: 35267323
DOI: 10.3390/foods11050690
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2022
aroma analysis
Forty-one apple samples from 7 geographical regions and 3 botanical origins in China were investigated. A total of 29 volatile compounds have been identified by flash GC E-nose. Th...
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PMID: 35681382
DOI: 10.3390/foods11111631
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2022
sensory panel
Higher alcohols (HAs) and acetate esters (AEs) produced by yeasts are two important volatile flavor substances in fermented alcoholic beverages (FABs). To improve the FABs overall...
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2022
aroma analysis
<i>Kluyveromyces marxianus</i> has the ability to contribute to the aroma profile of foods and beverages since it is able to produce several volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In t...
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PMID: 36141037
DOI: 10.3390/foods11182910
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2022
gc ms
The volatile compounds of eight peach varieties (<i>Prunus persica</i> L.)-"Filina", "Gergana", "Ufo-4", "July lady", "Laskava", "Flat Queen", "Evmolpiya", and "Morsiani 90"-growin...
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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.