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.
2020
gc ms
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria attain increasing importance in agriculture as biofertilizers and biocontrol agents. These properties significantly depend on the formation of...
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2020
World journal of microbiology & biotechnology
aroma analysis
The use of starter cultures during food fermentation aims to standardize the process and to obtain a higher quality product. The objectives were to study mesophilic bacteria (MB) a...
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2020
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Fermented rapeseed meal has been used as an alternative protein source for animal feed, but the volatile compounds and how their contents change during fermentation hav...
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
This work aimed to contribute to the nutritional and functional characterization of roasted baru nuts, a seed widely consumed and produced in Brazil. Baru nut was characterized in...
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2020
gc ms
In this study, flaxseed was pretreated by steam explosion technology and subsequently pressed to prepare flaxseed oil. GC, UPLC, HPLC, and GC-MS techniques were used to analyze the...
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PMID: 32328278
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1505
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2020
Journal of bioscience and bioengineering
other
Kokuto-shochu is a traditional Japanese spirit prepared from kokuto, a non-centrifugal brown cane sugar. When manufacturing kokuto, lime is added to the sugarcane juice to accelera...
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2020
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
aroma analysis
Pixian broad bean paste (PBP) is a traditional Chinese condiment, famous for its distinctive flavor. Microbial communities play a vital role in producing the unique flavor of PBP,...
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2020
gc ms
This study investigated the non-volatile and volatile compounds in samples of cold brew (CB) coffee, coffee from a coffee shop (CS), ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee, and brewed coffee...
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PMID: 33256030
DOI: 10.3390/foods9121746
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2020
aroma analysis
The objective of this study was to optimize the conditions for enhancing the antioxidant properties of sword bean (<i>Canavalia gladiata</i>) as a coffee substitute in two processi...
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2020
aroma analysis
Plant beneficial rhizobacteria may antagonize soilborne plant pathogens by producing a vast array of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The production of these compounds depends on...
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2020
other
The incorporation of the trifluoromethoxy group into organic molecules has become very popular due to the unique properties of the named substituent that has a "pseudohalogen" char...
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2020
gc ms
BACKGROUND
Flavor plays a critical role of defining sensory and consumer acceptance of dried pepper, and it can be affected by temperature and moisture content during hot air dryin...
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2020
aroma analysis
The biological activity of chocolates gains more and more attention of consumers. Its antioxidant properties depend, among other factors, mainly on the origin of cocoa and the char...
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2020
aeda
Mushrooms from different varieties and manufacturing methods show different flavor profiles. In order to understand the sensory attributes and aroma compounds of boletus, the discr...
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2020
other
This study compared aroma compositions and sensory aroma attributes of raw and cooked <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> larvae (mealworms). Main sensory aroma attributes of raw mealworms wer...
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2020
gc ms
The present paper aims to explore the rhizospheric bacterial communities associated with <i>Saccharum arundinaceum</i> grown on organometallic pollutants-rich hazardous distillery...
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
gc ms
Aromas and flavours can be produced from fungi by either de novo synthesis or biotransformation processes. Herein, the biocatalytic potential of seven basidiomycete species from Co...
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2020
gc ms
The genus <i>Lysobacter</i> includes several bacterial species which show potential for being used in biological control of plant diseases. It was shown recently that several <i>Ly...
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2020
gc ms
Dark chocolate samples were previously classified into four sensory categories. The classification was modelled based on volatile compounds analyzed by direct introduction mass spe...
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2020
Food chemistry
gc ms
In this study, pulse protein isolates (PPIs) were extracted from 0, 1, 3, and 5 days germinated chickpea, lentil, and yellow pea flours by alkaline extraction-isoelectric precipita...
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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.