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
other
In this work, we studied the impact of encapsulated elderberry extracts as natural meat extenders to preserve both the quality and the oxidative stability of beef burgers. In parti...
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2022
gc ms
Aroma is one of the most important sensory properties of tea. Floral-fungal aroma type, ripe-fungal aroma type and fresh-fungal aroma type were the main aroma types of Fu brick tea...
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2022
aeda
The influences of four drying methods (hot air drying (HAD), vacuum freeze drying (VFD), vacuum drying (VD) and intermittent microwave combined with hot air drying (MW-HAD)) on the...
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PMID: 36496741
DOI: 10.3390/foods11233933
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2022
gc ms
The characteristic aroma of cooked meat is generated from thermally induced reactions,
principally the Maillard reaction and lipid oxidation, between non-volatile components of l...
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2022
gc ms
Pulse beetles, <i>Callosobruchus chinensis</i> and <i>Callosobruchus maculatus</i>, are essential pests of cowpea, gram, soybean and pulses. Application of synthetic insecticides a...
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2022
gc ms
Red Sea represents one of the most remarkable marine ecosystems. However, it is also one of the world's least explored areas of marine biodiversity. The aims of this investigation...
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2022
gc ms
Tomato cultivation is threatened by the infestation of the nocturnal invasive tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta. This study was based on field observations that a wild tomato plant, So...
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2022
gc ms
Volatile organic compounds are key components of the fruit metabolome that contribute to traits such as aroma and taste. Here we report on the diversity of 90 flavor-related fruit...
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2022
other
The effects of (fresh/aged) brine and (pool/jar) containers on the flavor characteristics of pickled chili peppers were investigated based on a multivariate analysis integrated wit...
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PMID: 36613316
DOI: 10.3390/foods12010101
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2022
aroma analysis
Piperonal is a simple aromatic aldehyde compound with a characteristic cherry-like aroma and has been widely used in the flavor and fragrance industries. Despite piperonal being an...
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2022
aroma analysis
This work involves a comprehensive chemical composition analysis of leaf and cone samples of Lithuanian hop varieties. This study aimed to determine the chemometric properties of t...
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2022
gc ms
Motivated by the ethnopharmacological use of <i>Pulicaria dysenterica</i>, in the present study, the antimicrobial potential of the extracted essential oil was investigated against...
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2022
Journal of food biochemistry
gc ms
The compounds in volatile flavor substances in duck meats of three different body parts (breast, leg, and wing) were extracted by headspace solid-phase micro-extraction and determi...
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2022
gc ms
Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is the best vegetable oil worldwide but, at the same time, is one of the product victims of fraud in the agri-food sector, and the differences about q...
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PMID: 36236259
DOI: 10.3390/s22197164
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2022
aroma analysis
A reliable spoilage assessment method is needed to ensure sufficient quality control of shrimp. Colorimetric dye-based indicators that change color in response to pH changes can mo...
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2022
gc ms
The environmental and health risks associated with synthetic pesticides have increased the demand for botanical insecticides as safer and biodegradable alternatives to control inse...
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2022
other
The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, vectors Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterium that causes Lyme Disease. Although synthetic pesticides can reduce tick numbers, there are concer...
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2022
gc ms
Vaginal myiasis is one of the most serious parasitic diseases in Bactrian camels. At present, there are no reports on biological control measures of the disease. In this paper, the...
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PMID: 36423086
DOI: 10.3390/vetsci9110637
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2022
Neotropical entomology
other
The subfamily Cerambycinae, one of the most diverse in longhorn beetles, is well known for its remarkable chemical parsimony in male-emitted pheromones. Conserved shared structural...
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2022
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In recent years, there has been rapid growth in the availability of innovative, non-combustible products, including oral tobacco-derived nicotine (OTDN) products, heated tobacco pr...
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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.