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
Wild edible plants are important yet undervalued vegetables, due to limited knowledge of their bioactive components and nutritional/functional potential. In this study, we used ful...
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2025
aroma analysis
Ruminant meat is an important component of human diets, valued for its unique flavor and nutritional density. Lipids play a dominant role in shaping meat flavor, yet their genetic...
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2025
aroma analysis
Flavor is a pivotal indicator influencing the meat quality and palatability of premium broiler chickens, shaped by multiple factors. The flavor differences among broiler chicken br...
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PMID: 41376026
DOI: 10.3390/foods14234089
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2025
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The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a serious invasive crop pest and threat to food security. Conventional pest control approaches using chemical pesticides can lead...
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2025
aeda
‘Queen Nina’ is a popular grape variety, but the fruit flavor profile and its evolution and regulatory mechanism remain unclear. The flavor profile of ‘Queen Nina’ was systematical...
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2025
aroma analysis
Appropriate aroma extraction methods are crucial prerequisites for accurately and objectively characterizing the authentic aroma profile of samples. Purified water and ionized wate...
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PMID: 40870672
DOI: 10.3390/foods14162759
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2025
aeda
<i>Houttuynia cordata</i> is a culinary herb from Asia. Its edible rhizomes and leaves have a fishy aroma, the molecular background of which was unknown. A comparative aroma extrac...
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PMID: 40647055
DOI: 10.3390/foods14132303
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2025
gc ms
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) is a rare lysosomal storage disease. The most commonly affected organs are the spleen, the liver, and the lungs. Pulmonary involvement resem...
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PMID: 40717061
DOI: 10.1002/jimd.70039
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2025
aroma analysis
Honey, a key beekeeping product, is rich in antioxidants and bioactive compounds, offering antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and health-promoting properties. The water content of ho...
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2025
aroma analysis
Indigenous Chinese pork is highly favored by consumers due to its distinctive aroma. However, the lipid precursors responsible for its characteristic aroma compounds require furthe...
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2025
gc ms
This paper presents a modern spectroscopic characterization of the synthetic oil from oil sands of Beke, Munaily-Mola, and Dongeleksor. The pyrolysis process was carried out at tem...
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2025
sensory panel
Electrical stunning is the most common method of stunning in the poultry industry worldwide, but with a growing demand for prioritizing animal welfare, gas stunning can be an accep...
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2025
gc ms
The objective of this study was to develop an efficient method for decolorizing and deodorizing Asian swamp eel (ASE) hydrolysate. At an activated carbon (AC) dosage of 0.5 % and p...
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gc ms
Yellow mushrooms (Floccularia luteovirens), which grow in high-altitude regions, are a component of traditional Tibetan medicine and have high nutritional value. In this study, the...
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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are carbon-based chemicals characterized by high vapor pressure and low boiling points under standard temperature and pressure conditions. VOCs ar...
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The biocatalytic aerobic production of (E)-2-allylic aldehydes from their corresponding alcohols using lyophilisates of the basidiomycetous fungus Bjerkandera adusta is reported. T...
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sensory panel
The high-temperature and high-humidity (HTHH, 80 °C, 80 % relative humidity) environment has altered the characteristics and flavor of raw Pu-erh tea after 5 days of treatment. The...
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2025
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Fragrance is a premium trait of grain quality in the traditional, Jasmine-style rice (Oryza sativa L.) variety Phka Rumduol (PRD). Rice fragrance is a combinatio...
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2025
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Lichuan black tea (LBT) is a well-known congou black tea in China, but there is relatively little research on its processing technology. Echa No. 10 is the main tea tree variety fo...
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2025
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Mass spectrometry (MS)-based breath analysis has emerged as a promising non-invasive approach for diagnosing and monitoring respiratory diseases through the identification of volat...
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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.