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
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
This study investigated changes in nutrients (fatty acids, amino acids, and minerals), ginsenosides, and volatile flavors, and antioxidant activities during food processing of moun...
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2022
Frontiers in plant science
other
Plants emit a broad number of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) that can impact urban ozone (O3) production. Conversely, the O3 is a phytotoxic pollutant that causes unkn...
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2022
BioMed research international
gc ms
Schinus molle is a medicinal plant used as an anti-inflammatory and for rheumatic pain in the traditional medicine of Peru. On the other hand, Aedes aegypti is the main vector of s...
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PMID: 35615009
DOI: 10.1155/2022/5601531
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2022
other
<i>Ocimum</i> species represent commercially important medicinal and aromatic plants. The essential oil biosynthesized by <i>Ocimum</i> species is enriched with specialized metabol...
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2022
other
Based on the current trend towards broad-bandwidth LED light spectra for basil productions in multi-tiered controlled-environment horticulture, a recently developed white broad-ban...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
other
The potential impacts of active packaging on the volatile composition of fruits during preservations largely associated with consumers' acceptance, yet was barely investigated. In...
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2022
Bulletin of entomological research
aroma analysis
In this study, we present the first characterization of herbivore-induced plant volatiles (HIPVs) released from infested olive leaves. The gall midge Dasineura oleae is a specific...
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2022
gc ms
Various mint taxa are widely cultivated and are used not only for medicinal purposes but also in cosmetic and industrial applications. The development of new varieties or cultivars...
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2022
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Since some synthetic insecticides cause damage to human health, compounds in plants can be viable alternatives to conventional synthetic pesticides. Dittrichia viscosa L. is a pere...
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2022
gc ms
In Beijing area, the precious stone objects often suffer from the black crusts on the specific parts of the objects, in order to understand the forming mechanism of the black crust...
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2022
gc ms
Chrysanthemum (<i>Chrysanthemum morifolium</i> Ramat.) is a seasonal plant with high medicinal and aesthetic value, and drying is an effective practice to enhance its storability a...
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PMID: 35954006
DOI: 10.3390/foods11152240
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2022
Metabolites
gc ms
VOCs emitted by flowers play an important role in plant ecology. In the past few years, the Tillandsia genus has been scarcely studied according to the VOCs emitted by flowers. Hen...
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2022
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Our study's overarching goal was to determine which O. basilicum cell suspensions approach yielded the most insecticidal and R. ferrugineus-inhibitory volatile secondary metabolite...
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2022
Food chemistry
gc ms
Economically feasible and effective hop drying strategies are urgently needed to respond to the increasing number of microbrewers in US. In this study, hops were dried by dehydrato...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Rosa x damascena</i> Mill. essential oil is mainly used in the cosmetics and perfumery industry, but it also finds application in the food industry as a flavoring agent. The che...
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2022
other
The tri-trophic interactions between plants, insects, and insect predators and parasitoids are often mediated by chemical cues. The attraction to herbivore-induced Plant Volatiles...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Salvia officinalis</i> is a medicinal plant used to treat some diseases, including microbial infections and diabetes. Different studies showed the biological and pharmacological...
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2022
gc ms
Conventional headspace (HS) method could not meet the requirement of analyzing low-abundance volatile compounds in high water content samples. A HS-low water absorption trap techni...
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2022
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aeda
Rougui Wuyi Rock tea (WRT) with special flavor can be affected by multiple factors that are closely related to the culturing regions of tea plants. The present research adopted non...
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PMID: 35741892
DOI: 10.3390/foods11121694
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2022
other
The possibilities of the practical utilization of essential oils (EOs) from various plant species in the food industry have attracted the attention of the scientific community. Fol...
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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.