TABLE 1.

Comparison between various databases available on tastants and novelty of PlantMolecularTasteDB.

Feature	PlantMolecularTasteDB	BitterDB (Wiener et al., 2012)	SuperSweetDB (Ahmed et al., 2011)	FlavorDB (Garg et al., 2018)
Compounds	Bitter, sweet, sour, salty, umami, pungent and astringent compounds Complete taste profile for each phytochemical	Only bitter compounds	Only sweet tastants	No distinction between taste and odour of the compounds
	Focused on plant-derived tastants	Both natural and synthetic tastants	Both natural and synthetic tastants	Both natural and synthetic flavor molecules
Chemical class	Chemical class specified	–	Chemical class specified	Functional groups provided
Biological activity	Antiinflammatory activity	–	–	–