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
gc ms
Bacterial biocontrol agent/s (BCAs) against plant diseases are eco-friendly and sustainable options for profitable agricultural crop production. Specific beneficial strains of <i>B...
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2022
pharmacology
Nootropics, also known as "smart drugs" are a diverse group of medicinal substances whose action improves human thinking, learning, and memory, especially in cases where these func...
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PMID: 36014874
DOI: 10.3390/nu14163367
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2022
other
Fatty acids (FAs) play pleiotropic roles in living organisms, acting as signaling molecules and gene regulators. They are present in plants and foods and may affect human health by...
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2022
other
Lignin-based chemicals and biomaterials will be feasible alternatives to their fossil-fuel-based counterparts once their breakdown into constituents is economically viable. The exi...
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PMID: 36365629
DOI: 10.3390/polym14214637
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2022
'MDPI AG'
aeda
Written by experts in the field of table olives, this book is a source of recent research advances on the characterization and processing of table olives. Research papers are provi...
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2022
gc ms
Salted egg yolks (SEY) have a desirable and unique flavor with multiple underlying applications in food processing, and their abundant lipids contribute to a creamy and pleasant ar...
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2022
OENO One
other
The work aimed to study the effect of adding reduced glutathione (GSH) and/or gallotannins at bottling on the shelf-life of a Cortese white wine to limit the use of SO2.
The exper...
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2022
gc ms
This study evaluates the quality variation for twenty-seven capsicum fruit (CF) samples, in terms of their volatile oil composition and biological activities. The GCMS analysis rev...
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2022
gc ms
Methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA) is one of the leading causes of infection worldwide. Clove oil's ability to inhibit the growth of MRSA was studied through...
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2022
gc ms
The adopted TD-GC-MS/O method helps determine the correlation between the odour signals and compounds separated on the chromatographic column, from the analysed gas mixture. It is...
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PMID: 35160905
DOI: 10.3390/ma15030959
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2022
pharmacology
In recent years, interest in <i>Cannabis sativa</i> L. has been rising, as legislation is moving in the right direction. This plant has been known and used for thousands of years f...
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2022
aeda
Using high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) to treat liquid foods can improve their aroma; however, no information about the effects of HHP on soy sauce aroma has yet been reported. The...
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PMID: 35892775
DOI: 10.3390/foods11152190
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2022
gc ms
Marine seaweeds are known to have a potential role against microbial and pesticidal activities. Ulva lactuca, a green macroalgae extract analysed through gas chromatography mass sp...
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PMID: 35353449
DOI: 10.1049/nbt2.12082
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2022
gc ms
The present work reveals a comprehensive decontamination study on real and simulated biological and chemical warfare agents (BCWA). The emphasis was on evaluating the antimicrobial...
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PMID: 35056158
DOI: 10.3390/ph15010097
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2022
gc ms
Two untargeted metabolomics approaches based on gas chromatography mass spectrometry and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry we...
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2022
'MDPI AG'
pharmacology
Consumers are looking for healthier foods. Animal nutrition is one of the most important environmental factors in product quality, and significantly influences meat and milk and it...
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2022
other
At the European level, limits have been set (REACH) for the content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in products with rubber and plastic components that come into contact...
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PMID: 36234359
DOI: 10.3390/ma15197017
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2022
gc ms
Lignin is a natural aromatic compound in plants. Several lignin structural models have been proposed in the past years, but all the models cannot be converted to benzene carboxylic...
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2022
Environmental monitoring and assessment
other
Increase in the contamination of the aquatic environments is a global challenge; hence, understanding the sources of priority substances (PSs) is essential. In an attempt to implem...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
More than 5.8 million tonnes of oil have been spilled into the oceans. Some oil disasters marked history, causing multiple social and economic consequences in addition to catastrop...
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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.