Peer-Reviewed Research Database
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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
Reptiles are the most trafficked live taxa in the illegal wildlife trade, in part due to their popularity as an exotic pet. Current methods used to detect these illegally trafficke...
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2022
Analytica chimica acta
gc ms
Sebum from sebaceous glands is a rich source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can readily be sampled non-invasively from the surface of skin. The VOC profiles of sebum can...
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2022
gc ms
<h4>Aims</h4>This study sought to assess the volatile organic compound (VOC) profiles of ampicillin-resistant and -susceptible Escherichia coli to evaluate whether VOC analysis may...
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PMID: 35835588
DOI: 10.1111/jam.15716
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2022
gc ms
Aryl-iodonium salts are utilized as photoacid generators (PAGs) in semiconductor photolithography and other photo-initiated manufacturing processes. Despite their utilization and s...
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2022
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry
other
In this study, a quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) method was developed to assign the SI-traceable purity of ethylbenzene, a volatile material, which is a colorless fl...
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Freshness is the most fundamental and important factor to assess raw fish quality. The purpose of our study was to determine the potential spoilage indexes of salmon during non-fro...
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2022
other
Wildfires have destroyed multiple residential communities in California in recent years. After fires in 2017 and 2018, high concentrations of benzene and other volatile organic com...
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2022
gc ms
Medicinal plants and herbal preparations are gaining attention in the scientific community today, as they are often used intermittently in the treatment of various diseases. The ge...
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2022
Nanotechnology
other
Breathomics is the future of non-invasive point-of-care devices. The field of breathomics can be split into the isolation of disease-specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and...
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2022
gc ms
The study evaluates the chemical composition of the volatile constituents of ten plant species traditionally used as herbal tea in the Sharri Mountain regions (Kosovo and North Mac...
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PMID: 35615222
DOI: 10.1155/2022/2594195
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2022
Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Jordan
other
تعتبر القهوة مشروب شائع والذي يعتبر واحد من أكثر المشروبات المستهلكة عالمياً. تحتوي القهوة على أكثر من ١٠٠٠ مركب فعال حيوي كالكافيين، ثنائي التربين و حمض الكلوروجين. يُعد تأثير الق...
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2022
The New phytologist
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Some canonical plant hormones such as auxins and gibberellins have precursors that are biogenic volatiles (indole, indole acetonitrile, phenylacetaldoxime and ent-kaurene). Cytokin...
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2022
PeerJ
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Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni is a plant of economic interest in the food and pharmaceutical industries due its steviol glycosides (SG), which are rich in metabolites that ar...
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PMID: 35782100
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13675
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is one of the most popular spices in the world, with its unique odor. Due to its health benefits, ginger is also widely used as a dietary supple...
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PMID: 35681361
DOI: 10.3390/foods11111611
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2022
other
<h4>Background</h4>The robust model cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 is increasingly explored for its potential to use solar energy, water and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> for t...
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2022
other
Plant essential oils (PEOs) are widely used in cosmetic and nutraceutical industries. The component ratios of PEOs determine their qualities. Controlling the component ratios is ch...
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2022
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
other
Santalene, a major component of the sandalwood essential oil, is a typical representative of sesquiterpenes and has important applications in medicine, food, flavors, and other fie...
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2022
Talanta
gc ms
Scents released by trees are the secondary metabolites that play various roles, including indirect plant defense against insects, attraction to pollinators, communication, adaptati...
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2022
other
Essential oils (EOs) are chemical substances, mostly produced by aromatic plants in response to stress, that have a history of medicinal use for many diseases. In the last few deca...
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2022
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Valeriana pilosa is usually employed in Peruvian folk medicine in the form of infusion to treat stomach pain, and has antispasmodic, relaxing, sleep-promoting, and sedative propert...
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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.