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
pharmacology
The high-value carotenoid astaxanthin (3,3'-dihydroxy-β,β-carotene-4,4'-dione) is one of the most potent antioxidants in nature. In addition to its large-scale use in fish farming,...
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2022
aeda
As a deep-processed product of peach, the aroma characteristics of peach spirit have not been systematically studied, and there has been no research on improving the aroma quality...
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PMID: 36076783
DOI: 10.3390/foods11172598
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2022
other
Mosquito control with essential oils is a trending strategy using aqueous oil nano-emulsions to expand their performance. Sandalwood essential oil and its prepared nano-emulsion us...
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2022
aeda
One of the important indicators of wine quality is the bouquet, which directly depends on the aroma of the constituents. Aromatic substances of wines can be represented by all clas...
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2022
aroma analysis
The flowers of <i>Narcissus poeticus</i> are used for the isolation of valuable fragrance substances. So far, as the majority of these substances consist of volatile and sensitive...
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2022
pharmacology
<h4>Objective</h4>This review aimed to systematically summarize studies that investigated the bioactivities of compounds and extracts from Boswellia.<h4>Methods</h4>A literature re...
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PMID: 35069765
DOI: 10.1155/2022/6627104
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2022
Stallion Publication
other
Transformation of potential compounds into utilizable and beneficial forms is often cost involving and time consuming. Chemical transformation though was an existing opportunity ca...
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2022
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture
sensory panel
Commercial Malagousia varietal wines, which are produced in almost all Greek viticultural zones, representa relatively important part of Greek wine activity. This study presents th...
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2022
other
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on t...
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2022
gc ms
Conversion of hazardous compounds to value-added chemicals using clean energy possesses massive industrial interest. This applies especially to the hazardous compounds that are fre...
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2022
gc ms
The concerted effort for bioproduction of higher alcohols and other commodity chemicals has yielded a consortium of metabolic engineering techniques to identify targets to enhance...
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2022
pharmacology
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of two rosemary extracts obtained from the ■■■■■ of <i>R...
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2022
aeda
Essential oils (EOs) are complex mixtures of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds that originate from different plant tissues, including flowers, buds, leaves and bark. Acc...
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PMID: 36559861
DOI: 10.3390/polym14245495
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2022
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Angong Niuhuang Pill (ANP), a renowned precious traditional Chinese medicine prescription, is extensively utilized for the clinical treatment of stroke, meningit...
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2022
gc ms
The complex taxonomy of <i>Eucalyptus</i> genus, the renewed interest in natural compounds able to combat microbial strains, the overuse of synthetic pesticides, the consequent req...
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PMID: 36297377
DOI: 10.3390/ph15101265
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2022
gc ms
The <i>Eucalyptus</i> genus (Myrtaceae) is characterized by a richness in essential oils (EO) with multiple biological activities. This study reports the chemical composition and t...
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2022
other
Edible herbs are widely used in the human diet due to their pleasant flavors and countless health benefits associated with their components having, mainly, antioxidant and anti-inf...
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PMID: 35407116
DOI: 10.3390/foods11071029
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
This study was conducted to examine the chemical constituents of Origanum majorana L. essential oils (EOs) that originate in Nepal, as well as their biological activities, antioxid...
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2022
threshold study
3-Mercapto-2-methylpentan-1-ol (3 M) is a key onion flavor (aroma), but past sensory work has focused primarily on ortho-nasal presentation. A series of experiments was conducted t...
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2022
Food chemistry
gc ms
The mineral contents and volatile profiles of 23 sweet cherry cultivars were determined. A total of 27 minerals were determined by ICP-MS and flame atomic absorption spectrometry,...
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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.