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.
2024
other
Microorganisms associated with plant roots significantly impact the quality and quantity of plant defences. However, the bottom-up effects of soil microbes on the aboveground multi...
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2024
Scientific reports
pharmacology
Radix Fici Simplicissimae (RFS) is widely studied, and is in demand for its value in medicines and food products, with increased scientific focus on its cultivation and breeding. W...
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2024
Nutrition research reviews
pharmacology
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death worldwide. From this perspective, the role of vitamin E and its metabolites in preventing CVD has been studied, being s...
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2024
Frontiers in pharmacology
pharmacology
Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn, a herbaceous plant with a long history in traditional medicine for the treatment of hepatobiliary diseases, particularly in Europe, which has attracte...
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2024
Food chemistry: X
other
The novel loquat cultivar 'Chunhua No.1' (CH1) is a promising commercial cultivar. However, CH1 has texture characteristics different from those of common loquat, and its formation...
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2024
gc ms
The aim of this study was to examine the components of the cell-free supernatant (CFS) derived from a novel strain of psychrophilic <i>Lactobacillus</i>, <i>Dellaglioa algida</i>,...
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PMID: 39335914
DOI: 10.3390/foods13182986
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2024
pharmacology
Oleaster (<i>Elaeagnus angustifolia</i> L.) is a plant with high medicinal value and economic and nutritional importance, which has been used in traditional medicine for a long tim...
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PMID: 39479667
DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.4443
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2024
Journal of colloid and interface science
aeda
HYPOTHESIS: Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) cryogels can be functionalized with n-Halamines to confer biocidal features useful for their application as wound-dressing tools. Their effic...
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2024
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
other
Abiotic stress not only elevates the synthesis of secondary metabolites in plant sprouts but also boosts their antioxidant capacity. In this study, the mechanisms of flavonoid bios...
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PMID: 39594066
DOI: 10.3390/foods13223650
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2024
Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
aroma analysis
The use of microalgae as a food ingredient has been gaining attention in recent years due to its nutritional benefits. The main goals of this study were to (i) assess the nutrition...
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PMID: 39063258
DOI: 10.3390/foods13142174
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2024
Journal of food science
other
An organic solvent-free method based on limited dosing options (biocatalyst and zinc chloride) for the quick and mild recovery of chlorophyll (Chl) from spinach has been proposed....
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2024
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
pharmacology
Nervonic acid is a natural component of breast milk and is frequently used as a food additive due to its excellent neuroprotective effects. Although it has been reported that nervo...
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2024
Journal of oleo science
other
Nervonic acid (NA) is a monounsaturated fatty acid vital for brain health and is of emerging importance in various industrial applications, including therapeutics, food, and cosmet...
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2024
Critical reviews in food science and nutrition
pharmacology
Nervonic acid, a 24-carbon fatty acid with only one double bond at the 9th carbon (C24:1n-9), is abundant in the human brain, liver, and kidney. It not only functions in free form...
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2024
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB
aroma analysis
Pre-harvest spraying of benzothiadiazole (BTH) can improve the winemaking properties of grapes, especially their aroma compounds and phenolics. Limited research has explored the mo...
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2024
Frontiers in medicine
gc ms
BACKGROUND: Hypoxic conditions and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) infection are significant factors influencing the prognosis and treatment of patients with bronchiectasis....
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2024
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
gc ms
The oxidation and degradation of fats lead to a decrease in the nutritional value of food and pose safety concerns. Saturated fatty acids also hold a significant position in the fi...
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2024
PNAS nexus
other
The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), commonly known as the corpse flower, produces the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. Its rare blooms last only a few days and a...
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2024
FEMS microbiology letters
other
Aspergillus flavus is a common saprophytic aerobic fungus in oil crops that poses a serious threat worldwide with the carcinogenic aflatoxin. Prevention of aflatoxin B1 contaminati...
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2024
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
gc ms
Hydroxy fatty acids (HFAs) are fatty acids with hydroxyl functional groups attached to the main chain. HFAs are used in widely diverse industrial applications, healthy functional f...
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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.