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
Dietary fat significantly contributes to the sensory properties of food. However, its excessive intake is strongly associated with obesity and related metabolic disorders. In respo...
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2025
pharmacology
In the study, medlar samples were dried using natural drying in the shade at 25 °C, convective drying at 40, 50, and 60 °C, microwave drying at 200, 400, and 600 W, and combined dr...
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2025
gc ms
Edible indigenous wild fruits are popular in the communities they are found. In recent years, these fruits have been purveyed in urban markets and contribute to household income. H...
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PMID: 40236598
DOI: 10.1155/ijfo/9925294
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2025
aroma analysis
<h4>Background</h4>Sorghum grains are rich in phenolic compounds, which are noted for their anticancer, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as volatile compounds...
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2025
Journal of chemical ecology
other
The great diversity of specialist plant-feeding insects suggests that host plant shifts may initiate speciation, even without geographic barriers. Pheromones and kairomones mediate...
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2025
aeda
<i>Pistacia terebinthus</i> L., commonly known as the turpentine tree, is a wild-growing species with a well-documented history of use in traditional medicine and ethnobotany. Vari...
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PMID: 40238545
DOI: 10.3390/foods14071245
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2025
aeda
Mastic gum, a plant-based resin from mastic trees, has become very popular in recent years and has been used in various food products due to its strong and positive aroma propertie...
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2025
aeda
This study aimed to identify and compare the flavor substances in mature tomato and pepper fruits using flavoromics based on GC×GC-TOF-MS. A total of 1560 volatile substances were...
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2025
gc ms
An innovative method of production of the herbal propolis extract (PE) with a masked scent of propolis suitable for food applications was proposed. The obtained extracts based on p...
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PMID: 40620910
DOI: 10.1155/ijfo/5546802
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2025
aroma analysis
Solvent-free microwave extraction (SFME) is a clean and advanced method of extracting essential oils. In this study, it was compared to conventional hydrodistillation (HD) and stea...
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2025
aroma analysis
This study developed functional beef tallow with reduced saturation, improved flavor, and enhanced storage stability through optimized dry fractionation (44 °C, 8 h, 6 °C/h) and mi...
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2025
gc ms
<h4>Background</h4>Analysis of urinary organic acids (UOAs) by gas chromatography mass-spectrometry (GC-MS) is widely used in metabolomic studies. It is a complex test with many li...
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2025
aeda
The issue that the attraction of leaf odors leading to thrips attacks affecting the yield and quality of Passion fruit (<i>Passiflora edulis</i>)-a high-value tropical crop in sout...
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2025
gc ms
Date syrup is a valued ingredient in Middle Eastern cuisine and is widely used in the food industry for its sweetness and high nutritional value, prepared from fruits post-heat pro...
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2025
gc ms
Volatile secondary metabolites in plants can serve as valuable biomarkers for the plant's health, stress response, and pest or disease detection. We have investigated the volatilom...
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2025
other
This study assesses the quality of pure maple syrup sold online to consumers. It aims to determine how likely consumers are to receive syrup that meets legal grading standards. Gra...
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PMID: 41464923
DOI: 10.3390/foods14244216
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2025
Cutis
other
Although dermatology relies primarily on sight and touch, clinicians often overlook smell despite encountering diagnostic odors. We reviewed PubMed and Google Scholar for articles...
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2025
aroma analysis
This study investigated the synergistic effects of cold plasma combined with mango extract or Mallotus oblongifolius extract on the quality of refrigerated tilapia fillets. Fillets...
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2025
aroma analysis
To explore changes in volatile compounds of freeze-dried mango powder following various physical field treatments (microwave, irradiation, low-temperature plasma), electronic nose,...
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2025
gc ms
This study investigates the impact of rootstock selection on the essential oil (EO) composition of clementine mandarin (Citrus clementina Hort. ex Tan.) var. SRA 63 cultivated in s...
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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.