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
Food chemistry
pharmacology
Bamboo vinegar has been applied in livestock and fisheries as food additives. In this study, the antioxidant and antifungal properties of bamboo vinegar powder extract (BVPE) and i...
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2025
other
The widespread presence of heavy metals and aromatic compounds in environmental systems has emerged as a critical global concern. While conventional analytical methods such as spec...
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2025
aeda
<b>Background:</b> Shilajit, a naturally occurring mineral-rich organic compound, has been widely used in traditional medicine for its adaptogenic and therapeutic properties. This...
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2025
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Insecticides are toxic substances, though not necessarily toxins, intentionally released into the environment to kill or manage insect populations. These chemica...
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2025
gc ms
Annatto (<i>Bixa orellana</i> L.) is cultivated primarily for the extraction of bixin, a natural dye with substantial industrial importance, resulting in the generation of large qu...
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PMID: 40002147
DOI: 10.3390/foods14040704
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2025
gc ms
Empty-cup aroma persistence (ECAP) is a key indicator of Baijiu quality, yet mechanisms underlying its modulation remain unclear. GC-MS analysis revealed that ECAP positively corre...
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2025
gc ms
This study sought to evaluate the antihyperglycemic, antihyperlipidemic, and antioxidant effects of the methanolic leaf extract (MLE) of <i>Gentiana quadrifaria. In vitro</i> analy...
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2025
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
other
(+)-Isocampholenic acid, prepared in two steps from (1S)-(+)-10-camphorsulfonic acid in 60% yield (on a scale of 172 mmol), served as the starting compound for the synthesis of sma...
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2025
aeda
In this study, a gas-producing strain of Acetilactobacillus jinshanensis was isolated from spoiled vinegar. After heat treatment at different temperatures, it was found that this s...
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2025
aeda
The yak milk Lala (YMLL) from four regions of Tibet were used as the research object, and the headspace-solid phase microextraction combined with gas chromatography-mass spectromet...
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2025
pharmacology
<h4>Background/objectives</h4>Seagrasses are marine angiosperms capable of completing their life cycle in water; they have been used as food source and biomass for producing fertil...
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PMID: 40218994
DOI: 10.3390/nu17071236
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2025
other
The invasive plant <i>Heracleum sosnowskyi</i> Manden. is a valuable source of a number of bioactive metabolites that can be used in the pharmaceutical industry and medicine and ma...
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2025
pharmacology
<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Although malaria is one of the oldest known human diseases, it continues to be a major global health challenge. According to UNICEF, the global malari...
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2025
gc ms
The formation of internal diesel injector deposits (IDIDs) in heavy-duty engines is a growing problem as engine technology becomes more advanced while fuel blends become more diver...
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2025
other
Pepper essential oil has the effect of anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial activity. Enhance stability and solubility of oil using food-compatible Pickering emulsion...
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2025
gc ms
Ephedra foeminea Forssk. is a medicinal plant traditionally used across various cultures and recognized for its historical significance in herbal medicine. It has been used as an h...
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2025
aeda
This work evaluated the addition of the polyphenol-rich bioactive extract “e-Vitis”, derived from grape marc (the main by-product of the wine industry), into swine feed. This was p...
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2025
aroma analysis
Compound fermented seasonings were increasingly favored by consumers. This study using <i>Aspergillus oryzae</i> and soybeans as raw materials to make <i>koji</i>. <i>Lactobacillus...
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2025
gc ms
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and pathogens present a significant global public health threat that has led researchers to focus on discovering new antimicrobial agen...
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PMID: 40955360
DOI: 10.1155/ijm/4208163
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2025
sensory panel
In this work, a novel classification model for flue-cured tobacco aroma types is presented by integrating chemometric modeling with quantitative aroma component analysis. Three rep...
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PMID: 41189804
DOI: 10.1039/d5ra02888d
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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.