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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

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2025 Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) other

Environment-wide association study of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2018.

Environmental toxicants are increasingly suspected to influence cardiovascular (CV) and all-cause mortality, but previous studies mostly focused on one or a few chemicals. We exami... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39894157 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.125770

2025 gc ms

Volatile Compound Profiling and Quality Assessment of Sweet Fermented High-Amylose Rice: A Comparative GC-MS Analysis with Traditional Glutinous Rice Fermentation

High-amylose Lueang Patew Chumphon (LPC) rice, a geographical indication variety from Thailand, represents an underutilized resource for functional food development. This study com... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: doi:10.20944/preprints202509.0085.v1 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202509.0085.v1

2025 Journal of oleo science aeda

Progress of Researches on Pharmacological Effects and Bioavailability of Tangeretin.

Tangeretin is one of the most abundant polymethoxyflavones in citrus peel and its pharmacological effects are extremely rich. However, due to its poor solubility, bitter taste and... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39756989 DOI: 10.5650/jos.ess24169

2025 Journal of agricultural and food chemistry other

Identification, Characterization, and Mechanism of the Ene Reductase KlebER3 from Klebsiella sp. O852 for the Production of Dihydrocarvone.

Dihydrocarvone is extensively utilized in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic fields because of its pleasant odor, high economic value, and diverse pharmacological properties. In th... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41329653 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5c10217

2025 Insect science other

Functional characterization of Niemann-Pick proteins type C2 as odorant carriers in Neoseiulus barkeri olfactory perception.

Arthropods utilize olfactory function to detect informational substances within their natural habitats, thereby facilitating essential life activities such as foraging, mating, and... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40762293 DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.70143

2025 gc ms

Antiparasitic activity of Eryngium bourgatii Gouan: Fractionation and isolation of constituents from roots and aerial parts.

<h4>Ethnopharmacological relevance</h4>Medicinal plants are rich in bioactive compounds with diverse properties that can preserve human health. Eryngium bourgatii is used in tradit... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40258307 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2025.119840

2025 pharmacology

Divergent fatty acid desaturase 2 is essential for falcarindiol biosynthesis in carrot.

Carrots produce diverse falcarin-type polyacetylenes (PAs), which function as important antipathogenic phytoalexins and have potential as anticancer agents. Despite their abundance... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40156193 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101323 Full text on PMC

2025 aroma analysis

Heat stress compromises nutritional quality and flavor of bovine raw milk: Evidence from multi-omics analyses.

Heat stress is a growing concern for dairy production under global climate change. This study employed integrated multi-omics approaches to investigate how heat stress affects the... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41446590 DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.103361 Full text on PMC

2025 Food chemistry sensory panel

Supplementary light with different wavelengths improved the monoterpenes aroma and quality traits of 'Shine Muscat' grape berries under facility cultivation.

Monoterpenes are typical aroma components of muscat grapes and are closely related to lighting conditions. However, the changes of light quality and intensity in facility cultivati... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39923511 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.143255

2025 sensory panel

Sustainable Fortification of Corn Tortillas with Broccoli By-Products.

Fortification is the deliberate addition of essential micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, to enhance a food's nutritional profile and contribute to public health. A prom... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40077501 DOI: 10.3390/foods14050799 Full text on PMC

2025 gc ms

Fortification of non-dairy milk with date fruit, mustard seed, and turmeric: nutritional quality, probiotics viability, antimicrobial and antioxidant potentials.

Awareness about medicinal values of plant-based milk as functional foods has created a need to switch from chemically fortified food products to naturally healthy plant-based foods... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 41034312 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-17960-9 Full text on PMC

2025 gc ms

Identification of Volatile Compounds in Pennycress Protein Isolates Produced by Both Alkaline and Salt-Based Processes.

Volatile off-notes in ground pennycress seeds, ground defatted pennycress seed, and the final protein isolates (produced from the defatted seeds by alkaline or salt extraction) wer... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39853247 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c06032

2025 Foods (Basel, Switzerland) aeda

Health Benefits, Applications, and Analytical Methods of Freshly Produced Allyl Isothiocyanate.

Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) is a low-molecular-weight natural chemical predominantly obtained from the autolysis of sinigrin, a glucosinolate found in cruciferous vegetables like m... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40002023 DOI: 10.3390/foods14040579 Full text on PMC

2025 sensory panel

Volatile compounds evaluation and characteristic aroma compounds screening in representative germplasm of mei (Prunus mume) based on metabolomics and sensomics.

Mei (Prunus mume), the only floral-scented species within the Prunus genus, holds exceptional ornamental, edible, and medicinal value. By synergizing headspace solid-phase microext... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40482482 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.144994

2025 gc ms

Analysis of the effects of hydroxyl radicals on the volatile flavor composition and lipid profile of sheep meat based on HS-SPME-GC-MS and UPLC-MS/MS studies.

In order to investigate the relationship between oxidation and sheep lipids and flavor, this study used hydroxyl radical system, headspace solid phase microextraction and gas-phase... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40252444 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.144161

2025 Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.) other

Non-Saccharomyces yeasts enhance yield and flavor in industrial xiaoqu light-flavor baijiu production.

This study investigated the effects of adding Saccharomycopsis fibuligera (SF) and Pichia kudriavzevii (PK) on microbial communities and flavor substances in industrial xiaoqu ligh... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40922169 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2025.117040

2025 aroma analysis

Deep eutectic solution elution assisted ligand affinity assay: A useful tool for the active coumarins screening from Fructus cnidii.

<h4>Background</h4>Many of the ligand affinity analyses are presented in water environment, and the hydrophilic solution such as methanol is used for dissociating the bound compoun... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 39788658 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2024.343481

2025 aroma analysis

Analysis of dynamic changes and correlation between microbial community and flavor quality during <i>Fagopyrum tataricum Baijiu</i> fermentation.

This study elucidated the succession of microbial community structures and their influence on the physicochemical parameters and volatile compounds in fermented grains (FG) of <i>F... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40351716 DOI: 10.1007/s10068-025-01842-x Full text on PMC

2025 Food chemistry other

Characterization of phenethyl isothiocyanate nanoemulsion loaded pectin/chitosan composite film and application in beef preservation.

In this study, phenethyl isothiocyanate nanoemulsion (PNE) was formulated for creating composite films with pectin and chitosan. Two types of PNE/pectin/chitosan (PNE-PC) films (PN... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40505313 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.145030

2025 gc ms

Investigating the influence of insoluble pulp particles on flavor retention and characterization of freshly squeezed and pasteurized mandarin juice.

The presence of insoluble pulp particles influences flavor release and aroma characteristics in citrus juice. This study aimed to investigate the distribution of volatiles in both... Read full abstract on PubMed →

PMID: 40263853 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2025.116237

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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.