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
aeda
The characteristic aroma of Chinese black tea (BT) produced in summer usually lacks intensity and persistence, reducing consumer acceptance and market demand. Strobilanthes tonkine...
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PMID: 35741875
DOI: 10.3390/foods11121678
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2022
Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
other
Corn kernels were soaked with different selenium (Se) solutions (0, 12 or 24 mg Na2SeO3/L), sprouted for different times and then lime-cooked for the pilot plant production of tort...
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2022
aroma analysis
<h4>Background</h4>To enrich the probiotic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains and expand the commercialization of new fermented juice products, we have identified two LAB strains w...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
sensory panel
The enantiomeric contents of 2-pentanol of Baijiu were analyzed by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) using β-cyclodextrin as...
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PMID: 36076771
DOI: 10.3390/foods11172584
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2022
gc ms
In this study, the trend of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in dietary fiber samples from the winter melon (Cucumis Melo var. Inodorus, Yellow Canary type) were investigated. Thi...
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2022
gc ms
Rectal gland volatiles are key mediators of sexual interactions in tephritid fruit flies. We used solid-phase microextraction (SPME) plus gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-M...
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2022
aeda
Sauce-aroma Baijiu (SAB) is one of the most famous Baijius in China; SAB has more than 500 aroma compounds in it. However, the key aroma compound in SAB flavor remains unclear. Vol...
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PMID: 36496724
DOI: 10.3390/foods11233916
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2022
aroma analysis
To explore the potential application of non-<i>Saccharomyces</i> yeasts screened from Baijiu fermentation environment in winemaking, the effect of four Baijiu non-<i>Saccharomyces<...
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2022
'Elsevier BV'
other
Food Chemistry 382 (2022) 132359Available online 7 February 20220308-8146/© 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.1H NMR and UPLC-HRMS-based metabolomic approach for evaluation of...
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2022
Toxins
other
Zearalenone (ZEN) contamination in food and feed is prevalent and has severe effects on humans and animals post-consumption. Therefore, a sensitive, specific, rapid, and reliable m...
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2022
other
Diols encompass important bulk and fine chemicals for the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. During the past decades, biological production of C3-C5 diols from renew...
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2022
aroma analysis
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of defoliation performed in the Babica red grape variety on the volatile compounds in produced wine. Three treatments were perfor...
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2022
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Volatile compounds in breastmilk (BM) likely influence flavor learning and, through the cephalic phase response, metabolism, and digestion. Little is known about...
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2022
other
PurposeThe paper aims to throw light on the interactions taking place between the different chemical compositions at various temperatures. P-methylacetophenone is a polar dissolvab...
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2022
gc ms
Avocados (<i>Persea americana</i> Mill.) are one of the crops with the highest water footprints in Chile and the production is at risk due to severe and frequent droughts. The curr...
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2022
aroma analysis
The heterogeneity of the vineyard environment caused high variability in grape metabolites and flavor profiles, and the phenomenon was more prominent in recent years of climate cha...
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2022
aroma analysis
The yeast Yarrowia lipolytica is well known for its versatile production of metabolites from various substrates, but, although isolated from, e.g., wild-fermented Belgian Sour beer...
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2022
Journal of basic microbiology
aeda
Astaxanthin is a ketocarotenoid, super antioxidant molecule. It has higher antioxidant activity than a range of carotenoids, thus has applications in cosmetics, aquaculture, nutrac...
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2022
gc ms
Flavor (odor and taste) have a significant role in the consumer's acceptance, and volatile compounds are responsible for the odor of apricots. In the present work, headspace solid-...
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PMID: 35954064
DOI: 10.3390/foods11152297
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2022
other
The deeply oxidized pork fat (PF) is the key in the production of Chi-aroma Baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. Previous studies have not proposed an integrated method to promote l...
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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.