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
gc ms
To achieve high-value utilization of Chinese mitten crab processing by-products, different types of sauces were prepared using crab legs (CLs) and crab bodies (CBs). Two processing...
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PMID: 36613267
DOI: 10.3390/foods12010051
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2022
aeda
The present study focused on the role of roasting pretreatment in improving the flavor of WOs. In total, 71 volatile compounds were detected, 35 odorants were perceived, and 17 aro...
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2022
Meat and Muscle Biology
gc ms
Volatile aroma compounds were evaluated in USDA Top Choice and Select beef top loin steaks cut 1.3 cm (THIN) or 3.8 cm (THICK) and cooked on a commercial flat top grill at 177°C (L...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
Soybean paste is a tradition of fermented soybean paste products under natural conditions. This study used high-throughput sequencing and headspace-solid phase microextraction comb...
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2022
gc ms
Aroma is critical to the commercial acceptance of the hot-air-dried shrimp. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of phospholipid species with different fatty aci...
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2022
sensory panel
Pigmented rice is known to have nutritional and bioactive compounds which commonly concentrated in the bran layers. Solid-state fermentation is known to enhance the bioactive compo...
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2022
gc ms
Dongxiang tribute sheep have a history of use in food dishes such as "Dongxiang Handgrip," which dates back hundreds of years and is a favorite halal food in northwestern China. Ho...
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2022
aeda
Both free and glycosidically bound volatile compounds of Ziziphus jujube cv. Huizao were comprehensively investigated in this study. There were 43 and 17 volatile compounds identif...
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2022
gc ms
To understand the evolution of aroma in jujubes during dynamic freeze drying (FD), the relationship between aroma compounds, precursors, and related enzyme activities were analyzed...
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2022
sensory panel
The wrinkled pepper (<i>Capsicum annuum</i> L.) is a type of chili pepper domesticated in northwestern China, with a characteristic flavor. Fifteen wrinkled and four smooth-skinned...
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2022
aeda
In this study, key aroma compounds of low-salt fermented sour fish were characterized using headspace solid-phase micro extraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass sp...
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2022
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
sensory panel
This study aimed to evaluate the volatile compounds of chocolates made of Brazilian cocoas and statistically track them according to the products' sensorial profile in order to rel...
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2022
gc ms
Pyrazines are used in food industry to impart the foods nutty-roasted flavor. However, their extraction from natural sources is difficult and expensive. At the same time, there is...
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2022
gc ms
Microorganisms play an essential role in forming volatile compounds in traditional staple products. Tartary buckwheat, as a medicinal and food material, has high nutritional value...
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2022
gc ms
<i>Broa</i> is a Portuguese maize bread with characteristic sensory attributes that can only be achieved using traditional maize varieties. This study intends to disclose the volat...
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2022
Foods
gc ms
The present study focused on the determination of color, flavor, taste, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) changes of shrimp paste fermented for 1, 2, 3, and 8 years by E‐nose,...
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2022
gc ms
The seeds of Africa's majestic baobab are often discarded or poorly utilized. Few studies explored its potential as a coffee substitute, while the key volatile compounds are still...
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2022
gc ms
The volatile compounds in <i>Jinhua ham</i> samples after different aging times were characterized using solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE), solid-phase microextraction (SP...
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PMID: 36496707
DOI: 10.3390/foods11233897
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2022
'Universidad Industrial de Santander'
gc ms
En la presente investigación se determinaron las condiciones óptimas de tiempo, temperatura y tipo de fibra para la extracción por el método HS-SPME de compuestos orgánicos volátil...
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2021
Sheng wu gong cheng xue bao = Chinese journal of biotechnology
other
2,5-dimethylpyrazine (2,5-DMP) is of important economic value in food industry and pharmaceutical industry, and is now commonly produced by chemical synthesis. In this study, a rec...
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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.