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
aroma analysis
Arachis hypogaea L. ‘Tainan 14’ has purple skin characteristics. This study investigated the effects of different materials (shelled or unshelled peanuts) and temperatures (120 or...
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2022
gc ms
The volatile fraction of plant-based foods provides useful functional information concerning sample-related variables such as plant genotype and phenotype expression, pedoclimatic...
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2022
aeda
The production of coffee leaf tea (<i>Coffea arabica</i>) in El Salvador and the influences of processing steps on non-volatile compounds and volatile aroma-active compounds were i...
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PMID: 36076738
DOI: 10.3390/foods11172553
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2022
other
High concentrations of aldehydes may result in poor-quality agricultural distillate. We investigate the influence of the method of mash preparation, the initial pH of the mashes, a...
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PMID: 36008979
DOI: 10.3390/biom12081085
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2022
gc ms
Bacterial diseases are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity globally. During bacterial diseases, an elevation of host immune response occurs, which involves the production of...
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PMID: 36034966
DOI: 10.1155/2022/5436476
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2022
gc ms
Sheep crude tail fat has unique nutritional values and is used as a raw material for high-quality natural oil. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of probiotic...
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PMID: 36076827
DOI: 10.3390/foods11172644
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2022
gc ms
Round green tea (RGT) is widely distributed and presents a high yield in China. The quality of RGT can be determined by its aroma; however, the transformation and formation of vola...
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2022
gc ms
Gas chromatography has always been a simple and widely used technique for the separation of volatile compounds and their quantitation. However, the common detectors used with this...
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2022
sensory panel
Malt is an important raw material in brewing beer. With the increasing development of craft beer, brewing malt has contributed diverse colours and abundant flavours to beer. While...
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2022
gc ms
In this study, HS-SPME/GC-MS based untargeted and targeted flavoromics combing with olfactometry were employed to uncover aroma boundary compositions of five types of commercial ba...
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2022
aroma analysis
Flavor is essential to consumer preference of foods and is an increasing focus of plant breeding programs. In fruit crops, identifying genes underlying volatile organic compounds h...
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PMID: 35916073
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18416
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2022
gc ms
<i>Clostridioides difficile</i> (previously <i>Clostridium difficile</i>) causes life-threatening gut infections. The central metabolism of the bacterium is strongly influencing to...
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2022
Journal of economic entomology
gc ms
The parasitoid Cotesia glomerata L. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) oviposits in larvae of the large cabbage white butterfly (Pieris brassicae L.). Many parasitoids are attracted by vola...
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2022
aroma analysis
Legumes are an economical source of protein, starch, dietary fibre, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. However, they are not as fully utilised, due to volatile compounds contribut...
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2022
aeda
Daqu has gained wide attention because it is an essential source of microorganisms and flavor in baijiu production. In this study, HS-SPME combined with GC-MS/O was used to analyze...
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PMID: 35010242
DOI: 10.3390/foods11010116
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2022
other
The manganese(III) porphyrin MnTnHex-2-PyP<sup>5+</sup> (MnTnHex) is a potent superoxide dismutase mimic and modulator of redox-based transcriptional activity that has been studied...
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2022
other
Volatile profiles of unifloral honeys and meads prepared in different ways (boiled-saturated, not boiled-unsaturated) were investigated by headspace solid-phase micro extraction (H...
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2022
pharmacology
<i>Perilla frutescens</i> (L.) Britton, an important pharmaceutical and nutraceutical crop, is widely cultivated in East Asian countries. In this review, we present the latest rese...
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2022
other
This study evaluated how the generation of pyrazines was promoted by high-intensity ultrasound (HIU) in a Maillard reaction (MR) model system of glucose-glycine. Carbohydrate modul...
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2022
other
Heat processed beef flavor (HPBF) is a common thermal process flavoring, whose flavor properties can be affected by lipid oxidation during storage. Addition of antioxidants is an o...
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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.