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
Fungi are renowned as a fountainhead of bio-metabolites that could be employed for producing novel therapeutic agents, as well as enzymes with wide biotechnological and industrial...
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PMID: 35628759
DOI: 10.3390/jof8050504
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2022
gc ms
This investigation used the sourdough fermentation technique to ferment dough at different WBDF addition levels (0 %, 3 %, 6 %, 9 % & 12 %) and to evaluate the quality of the finis...
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2022
other
Tetrahydroisoquinoline (THIQ) alkaloids and their derivatives have a structural similarity to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), a well-known neurotoxin. THIQs se...
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2022
Frontiers in Microbiology
other
In this study, spore-forming bacteria isolated from saccharified rice were selected for producing acetic acid. From the screening of 15 strains, P8 strain was chosen as a candidate...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Saussurea costus</i> is a medicinal plant with different bioactive compounds that have an essential role in biomedicine applications, especially in Arab nations. However, tradit...
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2022
Vibrational Spectroscopy
gc ms
peer reviewedFourier transform infrared spectra of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) samples were acquired using attenuated total reflectance (ATR-FTIR). The main objective of the study...
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2022
gc ms
This paper presents the results of a study that examined the impact of grape variety on the volatile aroma compounds and sensory properties of standard and Muscat grape brandy prod...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
sensory panel
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of deep frying (DF) and air frying (AF) on the quality and flavour profile of hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) fillets. The change...
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PMID: 36076895
DOI: 10.3390/foods11172710
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2022
other
After being harvested, cacao beans are usually subjected to very complex processes in order to improve their chemical and physical characteristics, like tastefulness with chocolate...
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2022
other
<i>L.helveticus</i> is known to follow mainly similar metabolic pathways to contribute to cheese flavor with <i>S. thermophilus</i> and <i>L. delbrueckii</i> subsp. <i>bulgaricus</...
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2022
other
<i>Acorus calamus</i> var. <i>angustatus</i> Besser (ATT) is a traditional herb with a long medicinal history. The volatile oil of ATT (VOA) does possess many pharmacological activ...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Myrcia sylvatica</i> (G. Mey) DC. is known as "insulin plant" because local communities use the infusions of various organs empirically to treat diabetes. The leaves of seven sp...
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2022
BMC microbiology
other
BACKGROUND: Cyanobacteria blooms have become a major environmental problem and concern because of secondary metabolites produced by cyanobacteria released into the water. Cyanobact...
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2022
aroma analysis
Seven batches of raw tea leaves, processed by different methods (steaming, pan-frying) and from two different harvesting seasons (spring, autumn), were used to investigate the effe...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
The leaves of Rubus idaeus L., a by-product of the fruit food industry, are a known source of bioactive molecules, although the chemical composition has only been partially investi...
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PMID: 35627025
DOI: 10.3390/foods11101455
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2022
threshold study
The production of natural flavors by means of microorganisms is of great interest for the food and flavor industry, and by-products of the agro-industry are particularly suitable a...
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2022
threshold study
Yeasts are one of the main ingredients responsible for flavor precursors production associated with sensorial characteristics in chocolate. Using wild yeast isolated from cocoa bea...
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2022
other
Mosquitoes are vectors for a variety of infectious illnesses, and chemical synthetic insecticides have made it possible to control them effectively. Mosquito repellents are a typic...
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2022
other
Photocyclization of carbonyl compounds (known as the Norrish-Yang reaction) to yield cyclobutanols is, in general, accompanied by fragmentation reactions. The latter are predominan...
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2022
other
Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) have continued to be a treasure trove. The study of chemodiversity and versatility of bioactivities has always been an important content of pha...
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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.