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.
2025
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Essential oils play important roles in the modern food industry as additives and spices. At the same time, most essential oils have broad-spectrum bacteriostatic properties and can...
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PMID: 41097575
DOI: 10.3390/foods14193405
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2025
sensory panel
Squid muscle is delicious and nutritious, but it is highly susceptible to spoilage, severely limiting its market development. This study comprehensively evaluated the effects of ge...
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PMID: 40238316
DOI: 10.3390/foods14071160
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2025
gc ms
To investigate the formation pattern of dimethyl sulfide in shepherd’s purse, headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-...
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2025
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One of the current and serious environmental problems is the pollution due to microplastics. There is an urgent need for biodegradable and bio-based materials for numerous applicat...
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PMID: 41228721
DOI: 10.3390/polym17212961
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2025
aroma analysis
The moth <i>Trabala vishnou gigantina</i> Yang, 1978 (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae), a leaf-eating pest, had a severe outbreak in the sea buckthorn, <i>Hippophae rhamnoides</i> L. (E...
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PMID: 41048395
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.20124
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2025
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Low-protein foods have attracted much attention in the medical field. Herein, low-protein steamed buns (LPSBs) were prepared, and their properties were evaluated. The flour types,...
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2025
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<h4>Background</h4>This clinical experiment tested the effects of exposure to e-cigarettes with WS-23 or menthol cooling additives on user appeal and sensory attributes, and, secon...
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2025
gc ms
A cooling sensation is primarily elicited by cooling agents through activation of cold-sensitive receptors such as TRPM8 and TRPA1. Coolants are widely used as functional additives...
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2025
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<b>Background:</b> Skin diseases of inflammatory origin, such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and acne, have a substantial prevalence in the world population. Natural products are...
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2025
aroma analysis
The study highlights the impact of different carbohydrate-based wall materials on the encapsulation and release of flavors and physicochemical characteristics of spray-dried oleore...
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2025
gc ms
<i>Boehmeria caudata</i> (Urticaceae) is an unconventional food plant found extensively across the neotropical region, including Central and South America, where its leaves are con...
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PMID: 40959172
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.70953
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2025
gc ms
<h4>Goals</h4>Investigate feasibility of short (SCFA) and branched chain fatty acids (BCFA) in human stool as biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).<h4>Background</h4>Int...
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2025
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In order to investigate the difference in aroma quality among Osmanthus fragrans absolute oil and the permeate and retenate obtained from its membrane separation, a total of 66 vol...
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2025
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Menthol, a natural organic compound and the primary component of mint, exhibits diverse biological activities, including analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, neuroprotectiv...
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PMID: 40951682
DOI: 10.1002/elsc.70039
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2025
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This study systematically investigated the drying kinetics and quality characteristics of <i>Houttuynia cordata Thunb.</i> (HCT) under different processing conditions, evaluating h...
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PMID: 40509489
DOI: 10.3390/foods14111962
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2025
gc ms
In this paper, we applied pyrolysis-gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) to investigate the decomposition products and pyrolysis pathways of six ester additives (i.e., a...
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2025
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Protein instability leading to haze formation remains a critical challenge in white wine production. For more than a century, bentonite has been the most widely adopted solution du...
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PMID: 41375932
DOI: 10.3390/foods14233994
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2025
gc ms
One significant trend in the research of plant treatment methods is that regarding the use of natural-based methods in plant protection. In this study, antimicrobial activity and c...
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PMID: 41516187
DOI: 10.3390/ijms27010311
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2025
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Mevinolin (MEV) is an inhibitor of 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR), which is a crucial enzyme in terpenoid biosynthesis. Since there is limited understanding of the...
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2025
Perhimpunan Ahli Teknologi Pangan Indonesia bekerjasama dengan Departemen Ilmu dan Teknologi Pangan, IPB University Bogor, Indonesia
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The snack industry has shown a stable increment for years and still has great potential for further increase. Potato chips rank second in sales volume in the snack industry, with a...
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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.