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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Preprint · Zenodo · CC BY 4.0
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
aeda
The key aroma constituents in the volatile fractions isolated FROM two differently processed fry breads by solvent-assisted flavor evaporation were characterized by an aroma extrac...
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PMID: 32824398
DOI: 10.3390/foods9081129
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2020
aeda
The key aroma compounds in smoke-cured pork leg were characterized by gas chromatography-olfactometry coupled with aroma extract dilution analysis (GC-O/AEDA), odor activity value...
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PMID: 32252248
DOI: 10.3390/foods9040413
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2020
Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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An essential oil was distilled with 0.25% yield from fresh flowers of Dalea mutisii Kunth, a native species mainly growing in the Andean region of Ecuador. A total of 50 compounds...
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PMID: 33096831
DOI: 10.3390/plants9101403
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2020
RSC advances
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A total of 84 volatile aroma components were determined in the 9 samples of sugarcane to non-centrifugal sugar (NCS), including 15 alcohols, 12 aldehydes, 10 ketones, 17 carboxylic...
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PMID: 35516501
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra05963c
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2020
Food chemistry
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'Honeycrisp' is a popular apple cultivar because of its superior appearance and flavor. We investigated its aroma profiles and characteristic aroma. Whereas the aroma profiles of d...
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2020
aeda
Aroma profiles and aroma-active compounds of Sichuan vinegar that is one of the four-famous vinegars in China were systemically analyzed by SAFE-GC-MS and GC-O. In addition, descri...
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2020
aeda
Sufu is a traditional fermented soybean curd, and Guilin Huaqiao white sufu is one of the most famous mould-fermented white sufu in China. The volatile compounds in sufu were extra...
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2020
aeda
Vacuum-packed salmon was treated by electron beam irradiation preservation technology, to study the effects of electron-beam irradiation on odor active compounds of salmon by two t...
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2020
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
Screening the volatiles of cempedak [Artocarpus integer (Thunb.) Merr.] pulp for odor-active compounds by aroma extract dilution analysis and gas chromatography (GC)-olfactometry o...
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2020
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Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) is an edible flower belonging to the large family of Malvaceae. Aroma is one of the crucial parameters to determine the final tea overall quality a...
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2020
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
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The volatiles of cape gooseberry fruit (Physalis peruviana L.) were isolated by solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE), odor active compounds identified by gas chromatography-o...
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2020
Food chemistry
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The odour-active compounds of feijoa (Acca sellowiana), were isolated by Solvent-Assisted Flavour Evaporation (SAFE). By application of GC-O and the aroma extract dilution analysis...
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2020
aeda
Abstract Suansun is a sour Chinese traditional fermented bamboo shoot product popular in Central and South Asia due to its unique flavor. The volatile compounds and their odor-acti...
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2019
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
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BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to define the effects of the hulling process on the aroma and aroma-active composition of cv. Uzun pistachio. Four different hulling proce...
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2019
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
Qingke liquor is a very famous Tibetan alcoholic beverage made from "Qingke", hull-less highland barley, which is exclusively grown in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with an average altit...
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2019
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
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Bottom-fermented and top-fermented beers, both either late or dry hopped with Huell Melon hops, and respective reference beers without late or dry hopping were subjected to a compa...
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2019
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
threshold study
Infusions prepared from raw pu-erh tea (RAPT) and ripened pu-erh tea (RIPT) showed remarkable aroma differences. Predominant odorants in RAPT and RIPT infusions were identified and...
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2019
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry
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Rice flour is commonly used as a raw material in the preparation of gluten-free bread. However, compared to wheat bread, its aroma is different and often not accepted by consumers....
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2019
aeda
Aroma profiles, key aroma compound quantification, and cluster analysis of 15 brands of extra-virgin olive oils (EVOOs) from three countries (Spain, Italy, and Greece) were investi...
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2019
'MDPI AG'
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The fresh leaves of Coreopsis triloba S.F. Blake, collected at Cerro Villonaco in Loja, Ecuador, were investigated with respect to their essential oil (EO). The chemical compositio...
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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.