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.
2025
other
Terpene cyclases (TCs), consisting of various combinations of α, β, and γ domains, have been extensively studied. Recently, non-canonical enzymes comprising a TCβ domain and a halo...
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PMID: 40852458
DOI: 10.1039/d5sc04719f
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2025
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Drimenol synthase from <i>Aquimarina spongiae</i> (AsDMS) is a highly unusual chimera that integrates two distinct, sequential isoprenoid processing activities within a single poly...
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2025
gc ms
The search for sustainable alternatives to synthetic agrochemicals has fueled a growing interest in plant-derived bioactive compounds. <i>Drimys winteri</i> (canelo), a native Chil...
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2025
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(-)-Aristolone, a sesquiterpene with promising therapeutic properties such as antidiabetic and vasorelaxant effects, currently suffers from limited availability due to inefficient...
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2025
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<i>Mycogone perniciosa</i> is the causative agent of wet bubble disease, which induces significant losses in the production of <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>, indicating the high importa...
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PMID: 40985426
DOI: 10.3390/jof11070515
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2025
pharmacology
This study compares the nutritional and antioxidant attributes of <i>Prunus avium</i> and <i>Prunus tomentosa</i> while investigating their metabolite relationships. The results in...
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2025
sensory panel
Fermentation is widely recognized for enhancing the sensory attributes and nutritional value in foods, with recent research focusing on non-alcoholic and root-based functional beve...
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2025
gc ms
<h4>Aim</h4>Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that occurs among all age groups, irrespective of gender, and consequently it negatively impacts patient's quality of l...
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PMID: 40264592
DOI: 10.2147/jir.s505245
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2025
gc ms
Herbal spices are widely used as food additives not only for their distinct aroma and flavor but rather for their health‐promoting properties. In this study, the chemical profiles...
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2025
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<h4>Purpose of review</h4>This paper aims to evaluate the burden of contact allergy caused by cosmetic products, identifying the key allergens involved and examining recent regulat...
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2025
Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug
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Background: Polysensitization, defined as contact sensitization to three or more allergens, is an allergic phenotype with a common genetic background. Our study aims to characteriz...
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2025
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With new emerging diseases such as COVID-19 and an increasing incidence of cancer, there remains a significant need for investigating new therapeutic options to treat a wide range...
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2025
gc ms
Illigera celebica Hance is an evergreen climber found in China and Southeast Asia. This study investigates the chemical composition, nitric oxide (NO) inhibitory activity, and mole...
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2025
gc ms
Plant based natural products could be used as new alternative of chemical insecticides due to their co-friendly, safety to non-target organisms, and low-level resistance properties...
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2025
gc ms
Cadmium (Cd) is among the most ecologically harmful heavy metals. The purpose of this work was to identify the biologically active components in dried oleo-resin-gum of <i>Ferula a...
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2025
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Immobilization of lipase has been receiving attention for a long time; this is because of the need for robust catalysts by industries. Numerous literature has reported improvements...
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2025
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<b>Background/Objectives:</b> This study aimed to develop gel nanoemulsions (NEs) of Brazilian essential oils (EOs) from <i>Eugenia uniflora</i> and <i>Psidium guajava</i>, as well...
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2025
gc ms
Essential oils are a complex matrix of volatile compounds produced by many plants of different families with diverse bioactivities. <i>Eugenia uniflora</i> (Myrtaceae), popularly k...
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2025
gc ms
Chemometric analysis of essential oils (EOs) and antioxidant capacity across ten Tanacetum polycephalum ecotypes revealed significant intraspecific phytochemical diversity and dist...
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2025
sensory panel
Consumer preferences for rich flavor drive rapid growth in the new-style tea beverage market ($4.74 billion by 2030). Coffee-tea, a newly emerging product that integrates both coff...
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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.